OpenAI Researcher Says Agents Are Now Central to AI Research Automation

OpenAI is pushing AI agents into the process of building better AI, with research scientist Noam Brown saying recursive self-improvement is the company's leading priority for agent development. In a recent AI Deep Dive interview, Brown said current models can perform some data-quality review roughly 100 times better than human researchers did in 2023, turning a once-manual part of model development into an increasingly automated workflow.