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This interview features a top leader from OpenAI discussing AGI progress and future work dynamics.
OpenAI's Greg Brockman: Why Human Attention Is the New Bottleneck
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman discusses the company's progress toward AGI, compute needs, and the increasing scarcity of human attention in AI-augmented work. Speaking at AI Ascent 2026, he also touched on agentic coding tools now writing 80% of code and the potential of managing large agent organizations.
OpenAI's Greg Brockman talks about how AI is getting closer to human-level intelligence. He explains that while AI needs lots of computer power, human focus is becoming the most valuable thing. This matters because AI tools are changing how we work and what we can achieve.
This episode offers insights into OpenAI's perspective on AGI development and the evolving nature of work. Brockman's discussion on compute and agentic tools provides context for current industry trends. It is for AI enthusiasts, business leaders, and developers interested in OpenAI's strategic direction and the future of AI integration in workflows. The conversation highlights how labs like OpenAI are pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities and exploring new organizational models.
- HostSequoia Capital
- GuestGreg Brockmanco-founder and president, OpenAI
- Guest: Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI
- Show: Training Data (an official OpenAI show)
- Length: 28 minutes
- AGI Progress: 80% of the way to AGI
- Agentic Coding Tools: Now writing 80% of code
- Scarcest Resource: Human attention
Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, joins Sequoia partner Alfred Lin at AI Ascent 2026 for a conversation that spans the full OpenAI stack. He explains why the company will never have enough compute, why he believes we're 80% of the way to AGI, and why the agentic coding tools that wrote 20% of your code last December are now writing 80% of it. Also: why human attention is becoming the scarcest resource in AI-augmented work, and what it might be like to one day run an organization of 100,000 agents.
- AGI
- Greg Brockman
- Artificial General Intelligence, AI that can perform any intellectual task a human can.
- agentic coding tools
- Greg Brockman
- AI tools that can write and manage code autonomously.
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- What is the new bottleneck in AI-augmented work?
- Human attention is becoming the scarcest resource as AI tools become more capable.
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