Bostrom's 2014 Superintelligence thanked Sam Altman and Dario Amodei first
tszzl · x · 2026-09-24
A striking detail from Nick Bostrom's 2014 book Superintelligence: out of roughly 100 people in the acknowledgements, the first two are Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — 18 months before OpenAI was even founded.
Related event: Altman and Amodei Top Superintelligence's 2014 Acknowledgments(2 posts)→
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