In 2025 the first AI agents may join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.
Sam Altman, OpenAI · made Jan 6, 2025 · target Dec 2025 · Due for review
We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents "join the workforce" and materially change the output of companies.
The prediction
- Who
- Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI
- Made
- Jan 6, 2025
- Target
- Dec 31, 2025 (stated as "in 2025")
- Status
- Due for review9 months ago
- Source
- Reflections (blog post) Primary: their own words
- Topics
- Agents
More from Sam Altman
| Prediction | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 2025 | OpenAI will have a fully automated AI researcher by 2028.Open · Unverified · target Dec 2028 | Dec 2028by 2028 | Agents | Open |
| Oct 28, 2025 | OpenAI will have an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026.Open · Unverified · target Sep 2026 | Sep 2026by September 2026 | Agents | Open |
| Jun 10, 2025 | 2027 may see robots that can do tasks in the real world.Open · target Dec 2027 | Dec 20272027 | Robotics | Open |
| Jun 10, 2025 | 2026 will likely see AI systems that can figure out novel insights.Open · target Dec 2026 | Dec 20262026 | Science | Open |
| Sep 23, 2024 | Superintelligence could arrive in a few thousand days.Open · target Dec 2032 | Dec 2032in a few thousand days (about 3,000 days, read as late 2032) | AGI | Open |
Related predictions
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| Oct 17, 2025 | Making AI agents work like an employee will take about a decade.Open · Andrej Karpathy, Eureka Labs · target Oct 2035 | Oct 2035about a decade | Agents | Open |
| Jan 10, 2025 | In 2025 Meta and others will have an AI that can work like a midlevel engineer.Due for review · Unverified · Mark Zuckerberg, Meta · target Dec 2025 | Dec 2025probably in 2025 | Coding | Due for review |
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