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| 2014–2015 || Background || {{W|Nick Bostrom}}'s book ''{{W|Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies}}'', about the dangers of superhuman machine intelligence, is published. Soon after the book's publication, {{W|Elon Musk}} and {{W|Sam Altman}}, the two people who would become co-chairs and initial donors of OpenAI, publicly state their concern of superhuman machine intelligence.
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| 2015–present || Establishment || OpenAI is founded and begins producing research.
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| 2014 || {{dts|October 22}}–24 || Opinion || During an interview at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, {{W|Elon Musk}}, who would later become co-chair of OpenAI, calls artificial intelligence humanity's "biggest existential threat".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat |author=Samuel Gibbs |date=October 27, 2014 |title=Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat |publisher=[[w:The Guardian|The Guardian]] |accessdate=July 25, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://webcast.amps.ms.mit.edu/fall2014/AeroAstro/index-Fri-PM.html |title=AeroAstro Centennial Webcast |accessdate=July 25, 2017 |quote=The high point of the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department's 2014 Centennial celebration is the October 22-24 Centennial Symposium}}</ref>
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| 2015 || {{dts|February 25}} || Opinion || {{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|June 4}} || Opinion || 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>
