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OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

OpenAI is recruiting third‑party contractors to upload actual work products from their current or previous jobs so the company can benchmark its next‑generation AI agents against human performance. The initiative, part of a new evaluation framework launched in September, asks contributors to provide concrete files—Word docs, PDFs, spreadsheets, code repos—while scrubbing any proprietary or personally identifiable information. OpenAI emphasizes that these real‑world tasks form a human baseline for measuring progress toward artificial general intelligence. The approach raises significant intellectual‑property and trade‑secret concerns for both contractors and their former employers.