OpenAI's Will DePue: the Anthropocene is over — like mammoths meeting humans
willdepue · x · 2026-11-11
Will DePue of OpenAI offered a philosophical take on AGI: "it's over in a philosophical sense" — not cataclysmic, but like woolly mammoths when humans showed up, an unimaginably smarter being is now on the block. "We'll probably be fine, but the Anthropocene is over." He thinks 7 billion lives will likely improve by most measures and recommends Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End.
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