OpenAI's Will Depue sparks backlash claiming the third world contributes little to science and AI diffuses itself
willdepue · x · 2026-11-11
OpenAI's Will Depue sparked controversy by claiming the third world makes little contribution to science and that the tech world is already being eaten by machines. Responding to critics, he noted ChatGPT has 1.2B users and AI lab revenue isn't US-concentrated. His core argument: diffusion is slow only because humans are the bottleneck in understanding and integrating technology — AI will understand and integrate itself.
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