A July 12, 2026 opinion article in The Jerusalem Post by Jacob Sivak discusses Jewish over-representation in intellectual pursuits, particularly in artificial intelligence. The author notes that "disproportionate Jewish achievement is due to a cultural and religious emphasis on education, debate, and literacy, as well as to the pressures of widespread discrimination, not genius." The article highlights the significant roles played by Jews at OpenAI, including "Sam Altman, the CEO; Ilya Sutzkever; and the Bengio brothers, Samy and Yoshua." It mentions that Altman is an American Jew, Sutzkever was born in the Soviet Union and educated in Israel and Canada, and the Bengio brothers are Canadian computer scientists born in France to Moroccan-Jewish parents. The author connects this to a poem by Yiddish poet Kadia Molodovsky, written in 1944, which includes the translated line "Take back what is godly from our genius." The article references economist Thomas Sowell, who is quoted as saying, "As long as you succeed, you're going to be hated."