OpenAI is backing away from fully autonomous AI research by 2028, now talking about a "tandem" between humans and machines. CEO Sam Altman and chief researcher Jakub Pachocki also call for an international body that could slow frontier development if needed.
Last fall, OpenAI laid out an ambitious goal: by March 2028, the company wanted to build a fully autonomous AI system capable of conducting research on its own.
OpenAI, October 2025
A new blog post from CEO Sam Altman and chief researcher Jakub Pachocki strikes a much more cautious tone.
Instead of full automation, the post says, "Our internal belief is that by March of 2028 we may have a significant fraction of our research being done by AI systems in tandem with our own researchers."
