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

Will Knight, Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer

created: Jan. 10, 2026, 1:11 a.m. | updated: Jan. 13, 2026, 6:54 p.m.

OpenAI is asking contractors to describe tasks they’ve done in their current job or in the past and to upload real examples of work they did, according to an OpenAI presentation about the project viewed by WIRED. Real-world tasks have two components, according to the OpenAI presentation. OpenAI instructs the contractors to delete corporate intellectual property and personally identifiable information from the work files they upload. Contractors who offer documents from their previous workplaces to an AI company, even scrubbed, could be at risk of violating their previous employers’ nondisclosure agreements or exposing trade secrets. “The AI lab is putting a lot of trust in its contractors to decide what is and isn’t confidential,” says Brown.

3 weeks, 3 days ago: WIRED