OpenAI's Sam Altman to brief US officials on 'PhD-level' AI agents

Summary

OpenAI will unveil a new PhD-level AI super agent to US officials in a closed-door meeting on January 30.
These AI models are considered a generational leap for technology and can handle complex tasks such as managing a global supply chain.
Despite warnings to lower expectations, AI’s impact on job losses has lawmakers concerned.

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According to these reports, Altman will brief US officials in a closed-door meeting on January 30, during which he will unveil the doctoral-level artificial intelligence agents (via Windows Central). These AI agents, nicknamed “super agents,” are so powerful that they threaten entire labor markets. We’re talking about way beyond helping you organize a spreadsheet or code a website.

What is a super-agent AI?

Super-agents are described as goal-oriented artificial intelligence models that synthesize huge data sets to provide actionable results. That’s a mouthful and sounds suspiciously like how AI would describe itself. In short, these PhD-level super robots could:

Design new software from scratch, building and testing it independently from start to finish.
Mastering complex global supply chains and keep trucks, ships and planes moving on time.
Conduct in-depth research and analyzing complex problems at incredible speeds.

These are just a few examples of what these new AI models could potentially accomplish. Sources told Axios that the people who created these super agents were “excited and scared” by what they had unleashed.

Don’t get too excited, Altman tweeted

Altman posted on X, urging people to calm down and lower their expectations by 100 times. But none of the messages posted by billionaire tech bros can hide the fact that the emergence of AI is already impacting people’s employment. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff have already announced plans to cut hiring and replace workers with AI.

There are calls for Congress to address the potential fallout from widespread automation. Lawmakers are considering a major AI infrastructure bill, but let’s be honest, the artificial intelligence of super-agents is too far beyond their technical scope. know if Singapore is part of communist China or not (it’s not).

This means that the potential for these super agents to disrupt the job market is enormous. While they could

unlock untold potential
particularly in areas such as health research and genetics, they could also lead to a dystopian future of widespread job cuts.