OpenAI president: The computer should be there to empower you

OpenAI President Greg Brockman said on the a16z podcast that developers are wrong to adapt software for AI agents via MCP servers and CLI. He argued agents should work with computers like humans do, through screen pixels, keyboard, and mouse.

• Brockman: industry is rebuilding the world for agents via MCP and CLI
• Computer use idea discussed at OpenAI in November 2015 meeting
• Brockman says GPT-6 Astra is reasonably called AGI
• AWS and OpenAI continue developing connectors and plugins for agents