Planning for AGI and beyond | OpenAI

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity. Illustration: Justin Jay Wang × DALL·E Updated October 28, 2025: This post contains outdated information about our structure. Please refer to the following page for updated information. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity⁠. If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility. AGI has the potential to give everyone incredible new capabilities; we can imagine a world where all of us have access to help with almost any cognitive task, providing a great force multiplier for human ingenuity and creativity. On the other hand, AGI would also come with serious risk of misuse, drast

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity. Illustration: Justin Jay Wang × DALL·E Updated October 28, 2025: This post contains outdated information about our structure. Please refer to the following page for updated information. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity⁠. If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy,