The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex (opens in new tab)

We analyze usage data from OpenAI's Codex tool to present large-scale evidence of how agentic AI technology, which can take actions on a user's behalf, changes how people work. We use an automated, privacy-protecting pipeline to contrast usage across three populations: external personal-account users, external organizational-account users, and workers within OpenAI. We find that agentic AI usage is growing rapidly: the number of active users has...