™No Priors with OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Cybersecurity, Drug Discovery, and the Math Results
39:23: Sarah Guo and Elad Gil talk with OpenAI president Greg Brockman about the math results, biology data bottlenecks, the always-on agent Dots, and the cybersecurity defender's window.
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AI and mathematics: OpenAI's AI agents solved nearly 400 century-old math problems.
Drug discovery: Brockman named it a top AI application area, with biology's data bottlenecks needing new approaches.
Dots: OpenAI's proactive always-on agent tracks his to-dos, calendar conflicts, and work context across inbox and Slack.
Cybersecurity in the AI age: OpenAI moved about 25% of production engineers onto security, and turned its strongest model on its own infrastructure until it stopped finding new issues.
Shift in security investment: Brockman said cybersecurity spending should vastly outstrip software spending, as software gets cheaper and reliability and security become what buyers care about.
Human-centric ethos: humans should stay firmly in the driver's seat, and the technology should amplify human agency.
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