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It also has SIAI (named "Singularity Foundation") in the backstory.
Of course, any Hard Sci-Fi work should have at least that much. What I'm worried about is the role we'll play there... The vanguard of the new era, a ragtag bunch of pioneers whose work wasn't very fruitful in itself but tore open the path for greater endeavors, a plain old dead branch in the tree of science evolution... or harbingers of DOOM?
From the book (technically from the GM-only section, but not really a spoiler for most campaigns):
("Seed AI" is a term Eliezer coined, in case it isn't already obvious that the writers have been reading the SIAI website.)
LOL we did end up saving the world!
Actually, if I understand the setting right, the Earth itself ended up under the control of Unfriendly AI (the TITANs), so technically "the world" was not saved - although plenty of people were.