OpenAI says its research organization now uses 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday

OpenAI's research organization now utilizes 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday, according to new internal data. While humans still establish research priorities and evaluate outcomes, more than half of successful 4–8 hour tasks necessitated at least one human intervention. This raises the question of whether humans are transitioning into research managers, with AI agents handling most of the execution.

This report is the first to quantify the ratio of AI agent-workdays to human workdays within OpenAI's research organization, providing a concrete metric for AI's role.