Over a thousand job listings read as a public AGI roadmap

A reading of all 1,171 open roles at OpenAI and Anthropic found the labs advertising for AI-designed chips, simulated universes and staff whose job is to measure when the loop accelerates, a roadmap disclosed through payroll rather than a blog post. Beside it Logan Kilpatrick predicted that automating AI research will come to look like data cleaning, Elon Musk replied ‘So true’, and Roon admitted he would press a magic slowdown button if one existed, even as alignment researchers work like ‘many armed deities’. It belongs to the hiring-as-roadmap strand of the recursive-self-improvement trajectory: Karpathy’s move to lead pre-training gave the loop a job title and OpenAI Robotics’ hiring call a headcount, while a week earlier Moonshot’s chief executive had said the same plan out loud as K2 helping to build K3. The same issue’s Claude Opus 5 system card rated the model below the automated-R&D red line, the threshold the newly advertised measurement staff exist to watch.