AI Agents Poised To Enter Workforce In 2025, Says OpenAI CEO

According to Cointelegraph, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has indicated that artificial intelligence agents could begin integrating into the workforce as early as this year, as the company progresses towards developing humanlike artificial general intelligence (AGI). In a blog post titled “Reflections” dated January 6, Altman expressed his belief that by 2025, AI agents will significantly impact company outputs. These AI agents, or agentic AI, are systems capable of autonomous decision-making and goal-directed behavior, allowing them to understand complex objectives, make decisions, and execute actions with minimal human intervention. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also shares this optimism, noting during a November earnings call that enterprise adoption of agentic AI is gaining momentum. Altman remains confident in OpenAI's ability to design and build AGI, which aims to bring AI closer to humanlike intelligence. He stated, "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it." Altman emphasized the potential of superintelligent tools to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, potentially increasing abundance and prosperity. The introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has marked a significant milestone in the AI revolution, with many experts predicting a boom in 2025. Altman noted, "We are finally seeing some of the massive upsides we have always hoped for from AI, and we can see how much more will come soon." In a related development, Dario Amodei, CEO of AI firm Anthropic, which developed the Claude chatbot, suggested that human-level AI could emerge as early as 2026.