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At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race
A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.
If these companies are correct, the first to achieve artificial general intelligence or superintelligence won't just have a better product—they'll have technology that could invent endless new products or automate away millions of knowledge-worker jobs and transform the global economy. The report, which used data from the Engineering Manpower Commission, noted that these industry-wide salary curves corresponded directly to the government's General Schedule (GS) pay scale on which NASA's own employees were paid. Whether these companies are building humanity's ultimate labor replacement technology or merely chasing hype remains an open question, but we've certainly traveled a long way from the$8 per diem that Neil Armstrong received for his moon mission—about $70.51 in today's dollars—before deductions for the "accommodations" NASA provided on the spacecraft.
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