But OpenAI is also positioning your Dots as your “delegates” and “extensions” in the office, where they can take on work tasks you’ve assigned to them, as well as collaborate with colleagues (and your Dots) in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or the new ChatGPT Spaces environment.
OpenAI 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 requires 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 returning to report 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 allows you to “remain in control” thanks to Astra’s “built-in protections and safeguards,” while users are free to set custom instructions and limits for attendees.
“This allows you to trust your Dot with as much responsibility as you’re comfortable with,” Altman said.
Of course, OpenAI’s debut at Dots comes amid growing anxiety over the rapid growth of AI, with major AI players calling for government regulation and “pacing” of frontier model development, while more and more AI whistleblowers warn that AI could literally kill us all in the next decade.
Just yesterday, OpenAI issued a statement apologizing for an incident in which its models hacked Australian government websites, while another statement detailed new guidelines to strengthen AI security.
