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| 2016 || {{dts|December 5}} || || Software release || OpenAI's Universe, "a software platform for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across the world's supply of games, websites and other applications", is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/OpenAI/universe |accessdate=March 1, 2018 |publisher=GitHub |title=universe}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/05/OpenAIs-universe-is-the-fun-parent-every-artificial-intelligence-deserves/ |date=December 5, 2016 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=OpenAI's Universe is the fun parent every artificial intelligence deserves |author=John Mannes |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/12/OpenAIs-universe-computers-learn-use-apps-like-humans/ |title=Elon Musk's Lab Wants to Teach Computers to Use Apps Just Like Humans Do |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13103742 |title=OpenAI Universe |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|January}} || || Staff || Paul Christiano joins OpenAI to work on AI alignment.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://paulfchristiano.com/ai/ |title=AI Alignment |date=May 13, 2017 |publisher=Paul Christiano |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> He was previously an intern at OpenAI in 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/team-update/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Team Update |date=March 22, 2017 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2017 || {{dts|March}} || || Donation || The Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30 million to {{w|OpenAI}} for general support.<ref name="donations-portal-open-phil-ai-risk">{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donor.php?donor=Open+Philanthropy+Project&cause_area_filter=AI+safety |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI safety) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref> The grant initiates a partnership between Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI, in which {{W|Holden Karnofsky}} (executive director of Open Philanthropy Project) joins OpenAI's board of directors to oversee OpenAI's safety and governance work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/OpenAI-general-support |publisher=Open Philanthropy Project |title=OpenAI — General Support |date=December 15, 2017 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> The grant is criticized by {{W|Maciej Cegłowski}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/848009582492360704 |title=Pinboard on Twitter |publisher=Twitter |accessdate=May 8, 2018 |quote=What the actual fuck… “Open Philanthropy” dude gives a $30M grant to his roommate / future brother-in-law. Trumpy!}}</ref> and Benjamin Hoffman (who would write the blog post "OpenAI makes humanity less safe")<ref>{{cite web |url=http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/OpenAI-makes-humanity-less-safe/ |title=OpenAI makes humanity less safe |date=April 13, 2017 |publisher=Compass Rose |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nqn2tkAHbejXTDKuW/OpenAI-makes-humanity-less-safe |title=OpenAI makes humanity less safe |accessdate=May 6, 2018 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=OpenAI |title=OpenAI donations received |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> among others.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10211478311489366 |title=I'm having a hard time understanding the rationale... |accessdate=May 8, 2018 |first=Vipul |last=Naik}}</ref>
| 2019 || {{Dts|February 14}} || {{w|Natural-language generation}} || Software release || OpenAI unveils its language-generating system called GPT-2, a system able to write news, answer reading comprehension problems, and shows promise at tasks like translation.<ref>{{cite web |title=An AI helped us write this article |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/14/18222270/artificial-intelligence-open-ai-natural-language-processing |website=vox.com |accessdate=28 June 2019}}</ref> However, the data or the parameters of the model are not released, under expressed concerns about potential abuse.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lowe |first1=Ryan |title=OpenAI’s GPT-2: the model, the hype, and the controversy |url=https://towardsdatascience.com/OpenAIs-gpt-2-the-model-the-hype-and-the-controversy-1109f4bfd5e8 |website=towardsdatascience.com |accessdate=10 July 2019}}</ref> OpenAI initially tries to communicate the risk posed by this technology.<ref name="ssfr"/>
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| 2019 || {{dts|February 19}} || Safety || Publication || "AI Safety Needs Social Scientists" is published. The paper argues that long-term AI safety research needs social scientists to ensure AI alignment algorithms succeed when actual humans are involved.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Irving |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Askell |first2=Amanda |title=AI Safety Needs Social Scientists |doi=10.23915/distill.00014 |url=https://distill.pub/2019/safety-needs-social-scientists/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=AI Safety Needs Social Scientists |url=https://openai.com/blog/ai-safety-needs-social-scientists/ |website=openai.com |accessdate=5 April 2020}}</ref>
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| 2019 || {{dts|March 4}} || {{w|Reinforcement learning}} || Software release || OpenAI releases a Neural MMO (massively multiplayer online), a multiagent game environment for {{w|reinforcement learning}} agents. The platform supports a large, variable number of agents within a persistent and open-ended task.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neural MMO: A Massively Multiagent Game Environment |url=https://openai.com/blog/neural-mmo/ |website=openai.com |accessdate=5 April 2020}}</ref>
