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OpenAI allegedly threatened mathematician over authorship dispute

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OpenAI allegedly threatened a mathematician, Tristan Buckmaster, with career ruin when he refused to share authorship on a Navier-Stokes solution he had been developing for over a year. Buckmaster, a tenured professor at NYU, stated that OpenAI asked him why he would want to jeopardize his career by declining their offer. This incident reportedly occurred when Buckmaster declined OpenAI's request to co-author the solution. AI

IMPACT Allegations of unethical practices by AI labs could impact public trust and regulatory scrutiny.

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