- OpenAI’s Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki list future goals for the AI giant
- The world economy is now beginning to shape around AI and are committed to delivering tools that people would use
- The note also reaffirmed OpenAI’s commitment to AGI with a caveat: ensuring it benefits all of humanity
With modern AI solutions moving well beyond simple chatbots to agents and projected to evolve into operators, one could assume that the automation of everything is an eventual goal.
This, however, has been denied by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, who said the goal of the artificial intelligence research and deployment company is not to automate everything but to allow people to make better decisions as AI improves their lives.
In a note titled ‘Built to benefit everyone’ that marked a break from OpenAI’s AI model capability pushes of late, two of the most important people in the AI ecosystem penned an unusually values-forward document that outlined their future plans for AI.
AI for everyone equally?
The note highlighted three major focuses for OpenAI:
– Building an automated AI researcher
– Accelerating the economy
– Giving everyone on Earth a personal AGI
OpenAI estimates that by March 2028, a significant portion of its research will be conducted by AI systems, in addition to its own researchers. This will help them to traverse a ‘post-AGI world’.
This, combined with the focus on giving everyone an AGI, is an interesting outlook because it assumes that everyone agrees on what AGI would look like. The definition is not set in stone and can vary from person to person and also at an organizational level.
OpenAI’s statement also provides clues about what an AGI would be like, with an “automated AI researcher” who both provides a path to AGI and is…
