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OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher

Occurred
Mar 20, 2026
Published
Mar 20, 2026
Source
MIT Technology Review - AI

Summary

OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge. The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated agent-based system that will be able to go off and tackle large, complex problems by itself. ​​OpenAI says that this new…

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Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 95%

Rationale: Announcement of an automated AI researcher agent, no incident or harm reported.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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