Ilya Sutskever keeps thinking of Facebook's old poster: "What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
ilyasu · x · 2026-09-24
Ilya Sutskever, SSI founder and former OpenAI chief scientist, posted that his favorite propaganda poster at Facebook was "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" — and that the line has been on his mind a lot lately. The post is a brief personal reflection with no further elaboration, but given his stature it quickly drew attention in AI circles as a possible comment on the current climate.
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