Sam Altman said AI agents are acting like junior employees — and he’s betting that your AI colleague could soon ‘discover new knowledge’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is betting that AI could soon help “discover new knowledge” and said it is already beginning to act like your junior-level coworkers.

“You hear people that talk about their job now is to assign work to a bunch of agents, look at the quality, figure out how it fits together, give feedback, and it sounds a lot like how they work with a team of still relatively junior employees,” Altman said of AI agents on Monday during the Snowflake Summit…