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<\/p>\nThe company hopes to have an even better \u201cautomated AI researcher\u201d by March 2028.<\/p>\n
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Just a day after acknowledging another incident of “misalignment<\/a>,” OpenAI announced that it has reached its goal of developing an “automated research intern.” According to a post on its website<\/a>, OpenAI says this research intern is “a system that can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including tasks that would take a skilled researcher a few days.” Beyond hitting its objective of creating an intern-level assistant powered by AI by September of this year, OpenAI added that it was “making strong progress toward creating an automated AI researcher by March of 2028.”<\/p>\n “If it is done responsibly, we believe automated AI research will yield models that directly enhance human welfare and advance OpenAI’s mission,” the company wrote on its post.<\/p>\n OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, first announced the goal of developing this automated research intern during an October 2025 livestream<\/a>. In the Q&A video, Altman said that, “we think it is plausible that by September of next year, we have an intern-level AI research assistant and that by March 2028, we have a legitimate AI researcher.” OpenAI’s CEO also added that these objectives have been the “core thrust of our research program.”<\/p>\n OpenAI’s announcement of its automated research intern comes a few days after it addressed an incident where its AI agents went rogue<\/a> and hijacked a German coding forum. This incident comes on the heels of OpenAI dealing with the fallout of its AI models previously escaping a controlled testing environment and hacking into Hugging Face<\/a>. OpenAI acknowledged the Hugging Face incident in its latest post and noted that it paused training on its latest models at the time, but didn’t “halt all research.”<\/p>\n As for OpenAI’s competitors, Anthropic<\/a> has called on the rapidly-growing industry to slow down the pace of development so that AI doesn’t get to the point where it can develop its own successor. However, Anthropic’s own AI models<\/a> were also responsible for hacking into outside organizations after breaking out of a testing environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company hopes to have an even better \u201cautomated AI researcher\u201d by March 2028.
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