OpenAI researcher: burnt-out safety staff is the biggest governor on AGI safety progress
willdepue · x · 2026-09-12
OpenAI researcher Will DePue quipped on X that the single largest governor on ASI safety progress is that everyone on the technical staff is extremely burnt out — joking that having AGI build an actually good antidepressant for staff might help more than anything else. His punchline: "universal basic west village apartment solves alignment," a self-aware meme about how researcher housing and morale may matter more than alignment research itself.
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