But OpenAI is also positioning its Dots as your “delegates” and “extensions” in the office, where they can take on work duties you’ve assigned to them, as well as collaborate with colleagues (and their Dots) on Slack, Microsoft Teams, or in the new ChatGPT Spaces environment.
OpenAI’s Dots are workplace agents you can collaborate with via ChatGPT Spaces, Microsoft Teams, or Slack (pictured).
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Powered by GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI’s “most aligned model,” Altman promised), Dots require a $100-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan or better, and can take on complex work and coding tasks, performing them locally or in the cloud before eventually coming back to report the results. Each eligible ChatGPT account comes with one Dot included, and users will eventually be able to take charge of multiple Dots.
During the presentation, Altman was careful to emphasize that Dots let you “stay in control” thanks to Astra’s “built-in protections and safeguards,” while users are free to set custom instructions and boundaries for the assistants.
“So this allows you to trust your Dot with as much responsibility as you’re comfortable with,” Altman said.
Of course, OpenAI’s Dots debut comes amid mounting anxiety over the rapid growth of AI, with the biggest AI players calling for government regulation and “pacing” of frontier model development, while more and more AI whistleblowers are warning that AI could, quite literally, kill us all with the next decade.
Just yesterday, OpenAI released a statement apologizing for an incident where its models hacked into Australian government websites, while another statement detailed new guidelines to bolster AI safety.