OpenAI wants coding agents to speed up federal paperwork
OpenAI just teamed up with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to launch DraftNEPABench, testing how AI agents handle federal environmental reviews. Powered by GPT-5 and Codex CLI across 18 federal agencies, the agents cut document drafting time by up to 15%—or 1 to 5 hours per subsection—with the ultimate goal of turning months of infrastructure approval into weeks.