Sam Altman describes AI's next phase: agents that run continuously for you, monitoring Slack and email, writing code and building interfaces without asking. He says this will transform how people work, with his company focused on keeping AI human-centered.
The fact that you can talk to a computer, it can understand what you want, and then it can render for you a completely new interface. I think this is one of the most profound changes to how we use technology that I've ever seen, where it feels like you're in the movie, like the sci-fi thing came true. I would say so far there have been kind of 2 major eras of AI. I mean, a lot of other things too, but directionally speaking, you had the chatbots, And then you had the coding slash computer use agents of this year. As we head towards what I think will be this third phase of, it's not just like you ask AI for something like a chatbot, or you ask AI to do something like a coding agent, but the AI is like running for you all of the time, understanding your job, what you need to be more successful, rendering new code for you, proactively watching your Slack or your email. I think we are on the precipice of this third phase. Transform what people are capable of, how people can spend their time and live their lives and choose what they want to do, what impact they want to have. And now I hope this transforms people and companies and that we are one of the flagbearers for what this means for people, not what this means for the machine. I hope the humanity side of it really goes very far.
