{
  "id": 7821472,
  "title": "AI evaluator: The most important AI job in history? How developers might fill the proposed new job",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/ai-evaluator-the-most-important-ai-job-in-history-how-developers",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-16T15:58:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Stack",
    "slug": "the-new-stack",
    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/ai-embedded-evaluator-jobs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently proposed a new job in the AI industry, calling for employee-like access to a team of independent evaluators to verify safety practices, report incidents, and assess the alignment of AI models. This proposed role has garnered attention from other AI leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who agree that such evaluators are essential. The evaluators would work to ensure that AI systems adhere to safety practices and maintain alignment with intended goals. Although salaries for these roles can reach up to $687,000, AI security consultant Kadan Stadelmann notes that evaluator skills may favor technical expertise over a doctorate. Stadelmann emphasizes that evaluators must have strong engineering skills and be proficient in assessing various risk vectors, including agent behaviors under realistic conditions. When evaluating AI systems, evaluators must be able to monitor chains-of-thought, prompts, and overall system autonomy, as well as identify potential safety issues during training, testing, and deployment.",
  "summary": "The pace of frontier AI model development spurred Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to publish an essay last weekend, calling for The post AI evaluator: The most important AI job in history? How developers might fill the proposed new job appeared first on The New Stack .",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}