Bostrom's Superintelligence acknowledgements later featured Altman and Amodei at the top
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-24
A fun piece of AI lore: Nick Bostrom's 2014 book Superintelligence thanked 100 people, with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei listed first — though follow-up sleuthing shows they only appear in the 2017 edition, not the original 2014 one. OpenAI was founded 18 months after the book.
Related event: Altman and Amodei Top Superintelligence's 2014 Acknowledgments(2 posts)→
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