OpenAI targets fully automated AI researcher by March 2028, doc reveals
imjustnewatai · x · 2026-10-12
- An OpenAI document sets the internal goal of a fully automated AI researcher by March 2028, and says the earlier "automated research intern" goal — a system handling well-defined research tasks under human direction, including those taking a skilled researcher days — was reached by September as announced last fall.
- The poster notes that by June, OpenAI's internal agents were already working more hours than its human researchers; if the trend holds, the 2028 target could land in December 2027 or sooner.
- The document also describes researchers now using coding agents all day in concurrent sessions, with total usage growing faster than any other OpenAI team.
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