Big Technology Podcast · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
OpenAI President Greg Brockman described the company's vision for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as an AI that actively works towards user goals. He explained that this involves moving beyond conversational AI to an agent that can utilize tools like browsers and calendars to accomplish tasks.
“And where we're going is to have an AI that's really looking out for you, right? That you can provide the goals, the directions, that it's constantly thinking about what can I do for Alex today?”
“So it goes from simply a conversation interface to actually understanding your intent and then going out and accomplishing that for you.”
“That that's exactly right. And I think if you've used Codex, and by the way, how many people in the room have used Codex?”