OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that companies are using AI agents (programs that run autonomously to perform complex tasks) as if they were junior employees.
“You hear people that talk about their job now is to assign work to a bunch of [AI] agents, look at the quality, figure out how it fits together, give feedback,” Altman said on Monday during the keynote conversation at the Snowflake Summit 2025, per Business Insider. “It sounds a lot like how they work with a team of still relatively junior employees.”
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Meanwhile, a report last month from venture