OpenAI staffer says industry-wide burnout is the biggest brake on ASI safety progress
willdepue · x · 2026-09-12
Will Depue, an OpenAI technical staff member, says one of the best things AGI could do is build a genuinely effective antidepressant for technical staff, arguing that the single largest governor on ASI safety progress is that everyone in the field is extremely burnt out.
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