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ChatGPT Plugins: Tool Use and Search
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This OpenAI announcement is relevant to AI safety discussions around agentic systems, tool use, and the risks of AI models that can take actions in the world rather than merely generate text.
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OpenAI's announcement of ChatGPT plugins, enabling the model to use external tools, browse the web, and execute code. This represented a major step toward AI systems that can take actions in the world beyond generating text, raising questions about capability expansion and safety implications of agentic AI.
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- •Introduced plugins allowing ChatGPT to interact with external APIs, search the web, and run code, expanding AI capabilities beyond static text generation.
- •Represents a shift toward agentic AI systems that can take real-world actions, increasing both utility and potential risks.
- •Raises alignment concerns around tool-augmented AI systems, including unintended actions, misuse, and harder-to-predict behaviors.
- •OpenAI framed plugins as a gradual rollout to study safety implications of increasingly capable, action-taking AI.
- •Relevant to debates on corrigibility and power-seeking, as tool-use enables AI to acquire resources and influence beyond conversation.
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Note: OpenAI plugins have been deprecated. For more information about our products, check out ChatGPT for everyone, for Teams, and for Enterprises, plus our APIs for developers.
We’ve implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
In line with our iterative deployment philosophy, we are gradually rolling out plugins in ChatGPT so we can study their real-world use, impact, and safety and alignment challenges—all of which we’ll have to get right in order to achieve our mission.
Users have been asking for plugins since we launched ChatGPT (and many developers are experimenting(opens in a new window) with(opens in a new window) similar(opens in a new window) ideas(opens in a new window)) because they unlock a vast range of possible use cases. We’re starting with a small set of users and are planning to gradually roll out larger-scale access as we learn more (for plugin developers, ChatGPT users, and after an alpha period, API users who would like to integrate plugins into their products). We’re excited to build a community shaping the future of the human–AI interaction paradigm.
Plugin developers who have been invited off our waitlist can use our documentation(opens in a new window) to build a plugin for ChatGPT, which then lists the enabled plugins in the prompt shown to the language model as well as documentation to instruct the model how to use each. The first plugins have been created by Expedia(opens in a new window), FiscalNote(opens in a new window), Instacart(opens in a new window), KAYAK(opens in a new window), Klarna(opens in a new window), Milo(opens in a new window),
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