The next few years are likely to be transformative for AI and, in turn, also for the job market we are all trying to navigate. However, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, things are happening at an incredible pace, meaning the first AI agents could enter the workforce by 2025. And that could spell disaster. for some people.

OpenAI is focusing on super intelligence through ChatGPT

OpenAI has been a leader in the field of Generative AI for the past few years. With ChatGPT the name has become popular, just like how Google became number 1 in the search field. However, OpenAI is keen to move beyond its current products and instead focus on “superintelligence”.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, outlined his personal vision for the company’s next direction in a blog post simply titled “Reflections.” In it, he reflects on the past few years before looking ahead to what comes next.

The bottom line is that Altman believes OpenAI now knows “how to build AGI” (artificial general intelligence). And the company believes that “by 2025, we could see the first AI agents enter the workforce and dramatically change the output of companies”. He said:

We love our current products, but we’re here for the bright future. With super intelligence, we can do anything else. Superintelligence tools could dramatically accelerate scientific discovery and innovation far beyond our capabilities, and thus greatly increase abundance and prosperity.

All of this is related to OpenAI’s plans to become a for-profit company, with the non-profit division pushed to the side. The company plans to look beyond ChatGPT and start building artificial general intelligence. And OpenAI clearly considers that unfeasible as a nonprofit.

Everything changes when AI enters the workforce

Artificial intelligence (AI) has disrupted several job markets. While many would think that manual jobs like driving would be the first to suffer, the creative arts have been negatively impacted by the rise of Generative AI.

Now, as Altman and his colleagues at OpenAI predict, artificial intelligence is likely to disrupt even more people’s work (possibly as soon as this year). This will be good news for some and bad news for others.

Ultimately, artificial intelligence can open up a better future for humanity. With AI doing all the work that humans don’t want to do, giving us more freedom than ever before. However, that is only an optimistic view, because getting from here to there there are still many difficulties to overcome.

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