OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI can help ‘discover new knowledge': ‘I would bet next year that…'
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Sam Altman
said that AI is no longer just a helper. AI, he believes, is evolving from tool to a team mate. Altman further added that very soon, it might even help humans discover new knowledge and solve complex problems, not just assist with simple tasks. During a conversation at the
Snowflake Summit 2025
, the OpenAI CEO explained that people are now using AI agents (like ChatGPT) in ways similar to junior employees. These AI agents can be given tasks, produce work, receive feedback, and improve—just like a team of entry-level coworkers.
'You hear people that talk about their job now is to assign work to a bunch of agents, look at the quality, figure out how it fits together, give feedback, and it sounds a lot like how they work with a team of still relatively junior employees,' Altman said.
Altman also predicted that by next year (2026), some AI agents will go beyond simply helping—they might "discover new knowledge" or come up with non-trivial solutions to business problems.
He said: 'I would bet next year that in some limited cases, at least in some small ways, we start to see agents that can help us discover new knowledge, or can figure out solutions to business problems that are kind of very non-trivial,' he added.
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In a related news, former OpenAI chief scientist and co-founder
Ilya Sutskever
recently told his research team in 2023 that the company would need to build a protective bunker, often known as 'doomsday bunker,' before releasing artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to new revelations from an upcoming book about the AI company's internal turmoil.
"We're definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI," Sutskever declared during a 2023 meeting with OpenAI scientists, months before his departure from the company. When pressed about the seriousness of his proposal, he assured colleagues that bunker entry would be "optional."
The disclosure comes from excerpts of "
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," a forthcoming book by former Wall Street Journal correspondent Karen Hao based on interviews with 90 current and former OpenAI employees. The book details the dramatic November 2023 boardroom coup that briefly ousted CEO Sam Altman, with Sutskever playing a central role in the failed takeover.
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