For a wide-ranging conversation on the company’s new launches, AGI, the future of work, the rise of AI agents, and more

The details:

• Altman said AI’s ability for “novel discovery” is starting to happen, with recent scientists across fields using the tool for breakthroughs.
• Altman thinks the future of work “may look less like work” compared to now, with a fast transition potentially changing the “social contract” around it.
• He believes Codex is “not far away” from autonomously performing a week of work, saying the progress of agentic time-based tasks has been disorienting.
• The CEO also highlighted the potential for a zero-person, billion-dollar startup entirely spun up by a prompt being possible in the future with agentic advances.

Why it matters: Dev Day 2025 gave us a new step in both ChatGPT and OpenAI’s agentic tooling evolution, and Altman’s commentary provided an even deeper look into the future the company envisions. But no matter how strange the AI-driven changes get, Altman remains confident in humanity’s ability to adapt and thrive alongside them.