OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has announced that the company is confident in its ability to develop artificial general intelligence, with the first AI agents expected to enter the workforce this year.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI knows how to build AGI — and is beginning to turn its aim to 'superintelligence.'

In May, OpenAI’s superintelligence safety team was disbanded and several senior personnel left due to the concern that “safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products,” including Jan Leike and the team’s co-lead Ilya Sutskever. The team’s work was absorbed by OpenAI’s other research efforts, according to Wired.