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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

‘Virtual employees’ could join workforce as soon as this year, OpenAI boss says

Sam Altman of OpenAI
Sam Altman said AI agents would ‘materially change the output of companies’. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP

Virtual employees could join workforces this year and transform how companies work, according to the chief executive of OpenAI.

The first artificial intelligence agents may start working for organisations this year, wrote Sam Altman, as AI firms push for uses that generate returns on substantial investment in the technology.

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