Meta Offers Top AI Engineers $100 Million Salaries - Catch Revealed!

Top AI engineers are being offered $100 million to work at companies like Meta. But theres a giant catch.

Its a good time to be a highly in-demand AI engineer. To lure leading researchers away from OpenAI and other competitors, Meta has reportedly offered pay packages totalling more than $100 million. Top AI engineers are now being compensated like football superstars.

Few people will ever have to grapple with the question of whether to go work for Mark Zuckerbergs superintelligence venture in exchange for enough money to never have to work again (Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine recently pointed out that this is kind of Zuckerbergs fundamental challenge: If you pay someone enough to retire after a single month, they might well just quit after a single month, right? You need some kind of elaborate compensation structure to make sure they can get unfathomably rich without simply retiring.)

Most of us can only dream of having that problem. But many of us have occasionally had to navigate the question of whether to take on an ethically dubious job (Denying insurance claims? Shilling cryptocurrency? Making mobile games more habit-forming?) to pay the bills.

For those working in AI, that ethical dilemma is supercharged to the point of absurdity.