Top AI engineers are being offered $100 million by companies like Meta. But there’s a giant catch.

It’s 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 Zuckerberg’s “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 Zuckerberg’s fundamental challenge: If you pay someone enough t