OpenAI Publishes Research on How AI Agents Are Transforming Work — Longer, More Complex Tasks Across Roles

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OpenAI released a research paper arguing that AI agents are enabling longer, more complex multi-step tasks and expanding measurable productivity across job functions, not just in engineering. The framing pairs with OpenAI's own internal Codex token-growth data showing the steepest adoption in research and support roles. The piece is first-party positioning for agents as a labor-augmentation layer ahead of the GPT-5.6 rollout.