OpenAI's Greg Brockman: AI agents have solved nearly 400 century-old math problems
No Priors · youtube · 2026-10-15
The No Priors podcast hosted OpenAI President and co-founder Greg Brockman to discuss frontier models like GPT-6, cybersecurity, and AI-driven science.
Key points:
- Math: OpenAI's AI agents have solved nearly 400 century-old math problems, and the tech is being used to accelerate scientific discovery.
- Biology: AI could break biology's data bottleneck and transform drug discovery.
- Agents: he discussed proactive, always-on agents like Dots and his view that the best UI is no UI at all.
- Cybersecurity: he argues this is a critical window to use peak intelligence to find and fix vulnerabilities, with security investment patterns shifting.
- Stance: OpenAI remains committed to keeping humans in the driver's seat even as models surpass human capability.
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