OpenAI's Will Depue pre-commits to 2035 retirement as 'digital Amish', renouncing all post-1997 tech
willdepue · x · 2026-09-21
OpenAI engineer Will Depue publicly "pre-committed" to retiring to The Slowzone in 2035 as part of the "digital Amish", forgoing all technology invented after 1997 — saying his children will never know a computer capable of displaying video. A tongue-in-cheek take on the accelerating pace of AI rather than an actual plan.
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