OpenAI's Will Depue: the Anthropocene is over as an unimaginably smarter being arrives
willdepue · x · 2026-11-11
OpenAI's Will Depue argues AI has made things 'over in a philosophical sense': like wooly mammoths facing humans, an unimaginably smarter being is now on the block. All non-artisanal economic labor is finished — 'Magnus Carlsen vs Stockfish 13 from here on out.' Humans will probably be fine, but 'the Anthropocene is over. Done with our time in the sun.'
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