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

January 9, 2026 Will Knight, Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.

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