OpenAI Dots AI Agents Can Keep Working In The Background As Tasks Change (Image Credit: OpenAI) After facing fresh scrutiny and apologising for the AI agents breaching the Australian government’s public health website, OpenAI has launched a new type of AI agent called Dots that can work on behalf of users across different apps. The Sam Altman-led firm announced the agents at its annual Developer Day in San Francisco on Tuesday, taking on Meta’s Muse AI Agent app. Unlike the conventional chatbots that usually respond to user queries, Dots can take action on your behalf and keep working as a task changes in the background. Dots can handle projects with multiple steps and may change over time. For example, an agent can update a sales proposal when a customer's requirements change or create a working software demo for a user to review. You can communicate with Dots through platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. The agents can also use OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT Work tools to research information, analyse data, create documents and develop software. "We believe (the agent) is going to feel like a whole new way to work with AI. This is the real deal version of AI that we've always imagined for ourselves," Altman said at the event, as per Reuters. The growing use of autonomous AI agents has also raised concerns about what could happen when these systems take actions without constant human supervision. OpenAI has faced scrutiny over incidents involving its AI agents, including reported activity involving Hugging Face and an Australian government health website. OpenAI said Dots have been safety tested and are powered by GPT-6 Astra, which Altman described as the company's model that most closely follows human instructions. The tech giant said users can create custom rules that determine what Dots are allowed to do and when they must ask for permission. Some sensitive actions will require explicit approval from users, according to OpenAI. These include changing passwords and permanently deleting data. The company also said Dots operate on their own cloud computers. OpenAI is introducing private intelligence tools to identify potential safety risks while saying that business customers' data will not be retained for this purpose. Govind Choudhary is the Chief Copy Editor for Tech at Times Now with over five years of experience in the media industry. He covers consumer technolog... View More