OpenAI President on What it Means to Cross Into The Age of AGI

a16z · · 50 min

OpenAI President Greg Brockman joins a16z to discuss why he believes we have entered the AGI era and what businesses and governments should do about security and access to AI.

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The gist

  1. He argues organizations need to move from static security postures, unchanged for 5 to 10 years, to automated defense loops that find, triage, and patch vulnerabilities at machine speed.
  2. Brockman says computer use lets AI control screens and keyboards like a human, removing the need to build custom APIs before automating tasks.

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