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| 2015 || {{dts|February 25}} || Background || {{w|Sam Altman}}, president of [[w:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] who would later become a co-chair of OpenAI, publishes a blog post in which he writes that the development of superhuman AI is "probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1 |title=Machine intelligence, part 1 |publisher=Sam Altman |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|May 6}} || Background || Greg Brockman, who would become CTO of OpenAI, announces in a blog post that he is leaving his role as CTO of [[wikipedia:Stripe (company)|Stripe]]. In the post, in the section "What comes next" he writes "I haven't decided exactly what I'll be building (feel free to ping if you want to chat)".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.gregbrockman.com/leaving-stripe |title=Leaving Stripe |first=Greg |last=Brockman |publisher=Greg Brockman on Svbtle |date=May 6, 2015 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/stripes-cto-greg-brockman-is-leaving-the-company-2015-5 |date=May 6, 2015 |first=Biz |last=Carson |title=One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|June 4}} || Background || At {{w|Airbnb}}'s Open Air 2015 conference, {{w|Sam Altman}}, president of [[w:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] who would later become a co-chair of OpenAI, states his concern for advanced artificial intelligence and shares that he recently invested in a company doing AI safety research.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-y-combinator-talks-mega-bubble-nuclear-power-and-more-2015-6 |author=Matt Weinberger |date=June 4, 2015 |title=Head of Silicon Valley's most important startup farm says we're in a 'mega bubble' that won't last |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|December 11}} || || {{w|OpenAI}} is announced to the public. (The news articles from this period make it sound like OpenAI launched sometime after this date.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/science/artificial-intelligence-research-center-is-founded-by-silicon-valley-investors.html |date=December 11, 2015 |publisher=[[w:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |title=Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded by Silicon Valley Investors |author=John Markoff |accessdate=July 26, 2017 |quote=The organization, to be named OpenAI, will be established as a nonprofit, and will be based in San Francisco.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/introducing-openai/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Introducing OpenAI |date=December 11, 2015 |accessdate=July 26, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/11/non-profit-openai-launches-with-backing-from-elon-musk-and-sam-altman/ |date=December 11, 2015 |publisher=TechCrunch |title=Artificial Intelligence Nonprofit OpenAI Launches With Backing From Elon Musk And Sam Altman |author=Drew Olanoff |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|January}} || || {{W|Ilya Sutskever}} joins OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://aiwatch.issarice.com/?person=Ilya+Sutskever |date=April 8, 2018 |title=Ilya Sutskever |publisher=AI Watch |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|January 9}} || || The OpenAI research team does an AMA ("ask me anything") on r/MachineLearning, the subreddit dedicated to machine learning.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/404r9m/ama_the_openai_research_team/ |publisher=reddit |title=AMA: the OpenAI Research Team • r/MachineLearning |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|March 31}} || || A blog post from this day announces that {{W|Ian Goodfellow}} has joined OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/team-plus-plus/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Team++ |date=March 22, 2017 |first=Greg |last=Brockman |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{Dts|April 26}} || || A blog post from this day announces that {{W|Pieter Abbeel}} has joined OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/welcome-pieter-and-shivon/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=Welcome, Pieter and Shivon! |date=March 20, 2017 |first=Ilya |last=Sutskever |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>
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| 2016 || {{dts|April 27}} || Software || The public beta of OpenAI Gym, an open source toolkit that provides environments to test AI bots, is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.openai.com/openai-gym-beta/ |publisher=OpenAI Blog |title=OpenAI Gym Beta |date=March 20, 2017 |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-plan-to-set-artificial-intelligence-free/ |title=Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free |date=April 27, 2016 |publisher=[[wikipedia:WIRED|WIRED]] |accessdate=March 2, 2018 |quote=This morning, OpenAI will release its first batch of AI software, a toolkit for building artificially intelligent systems by way of a technology called "reinforcement learning"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/openai-has-launched-a-gym-where-developers-can-train-their-computers-2016-4?op=1 |first=Sam |last=Shead |date=April 28, 2016 |title=Elon Musk's $1 billion AI company launches a 'gym' where developers train their computers |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=March 3, 2018}}</ref>
| 2017 || {{dts|January}} || || 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}} || Financial || 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+risk safety |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI risksafety) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref> The grant initiates a partnership between Open Philanthropy Project and OpenAI, in which 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>
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| 2017 || {{dts|April}} || || An article entitled "The People Behind OpenAI" is published on {{W|Red Hat}}'s ''Open Source Stories'' website, covering work at OpenAI.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories/ai-revolutionaries/people-behind-openai |title=Open Source Stories: The People Behind OpenAI |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |first1=Brent |last1=Simoneaux |first2=Casey |last2=Stegman}} In the HTML source, last-publish-date is shown as Tue, 25 Apr 2017 04:00:00 GMT as of 2018-05-05.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/63xr4p/profile_of_the_people_behind_openai/ |publisher=reddit |title=Profile of the people behind OpenAI • r/OpenAI |date=April 7, 2017 |accessdate=May 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14832524 |title=The People Behind OpenAI |website=Hacker News |accessdate=May 5, 2018 |date=July 23, 2017}}</ref>
