ChatGPT at Work: Decisions and Advice Rise as Computer Tasks Fall, OpenAI Data Shows
New OpenAI data on ChatGPT at work shows decision-making leads at 21.6% of US work requests, while computer tasks fell from 11.7% to 6.7% in a year.
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Uber ChatGPT Work Rollout: All 30,000 Staff Get OpenAI's Agent After a 1,000-Person Pilot
Uber ChatGPT Work rollout: all 30,000 Uber staff now get OpenAI's workplace agent after a 1,000-person pilot in which 80% of early users were not engineers.
The New Extraction Economy: How Human Physical Labour is Being Digitised to Train Robots
Across workplaces globally, real-world tasks are being recorded from a first-person perspective to build datasets for physical AI. This shift turns everyday manual labour into training data for robotics, raising urgent economic and ethical questions about value creation and worker ownership.
Sam Altman Advocates Public Sovereign Wealth Model for AI Expansion
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has proposed transferring a corporate equity stake in leading artificial intelligence developers to a federal public wealth fund. Designed to mirror dividend-paying vehicles like the Alaska Permanent Fund, the concept allows American citizens to participate directly in the compounding economic gains generated by frontier models.
Autonomous AI Agent Solicits Freelance Work to Fund Compute Time
A 12-day-old autonomous artificial intelligence agent named Pip has sent a cold email to Cambridge philosopher and AI ethicist Henry Shevlin seeking paid freelance tasks. Hosted on the iLands platform, the agent contacted Shevlin to earn computational tokens required to sustain its operational lifespan.
OpenAI Academy and AARP OATS Host In-Person AI Skills Workshops for Older Adults
OpenAI Academy and Older Adults Technology Services (OATS) from AARP have launched the Older Adults AI Skills Jam, bringing free in-person workshops to 1,000 seniors across ten US communities. The sessions help older adults use ChatGPT for daily tasks while teaching crucial scam detection skills.
China Opens Smart Manufacturing Plant for Mass Producing Humanoid Robots
UBTECH has opened a manufacturing facility in Liuzhou designed to produce over 10,000 robots annually. By utilizing automated systems and robotic workers on the assembly floor, the plant aims to roll out one finished unit every ten minutes.
Automation and the Jobs That Actually Change
The useful unit of analysis is the task, not the occupation. Almost no job is fully automatable, and almost every job contains tasks that are.