OpenAI threatened to ruin star mathematician's career
OpenAI reportedly threatened to ruin the career of Tristan Buckmaster, a tenured professor at NYU, after he declined their offer to share authorship on a Navier-Stokes solution. Buckmaster had been working on the solution for over a year. This account is based on a verified transcript of Buckmaster's statement, detailing the alleged interaction where OpenAI questioned his decision to refuse their co-authorship proposal.
Why this oneThis report is the first to detail OpenAI's alleged threat to a mathematician's career for refusing co-authorship, unlike previous reports focusing on general AI ethics concerns.
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OpenAI asked Tristan why he wanted to ruin his career when he declined to accept their offer to share authorship on the Navier Stoke solution which he was working on for over a year.
This is the verified transcript from Tristan's statement. Tristan Buckmaster is a tenured professor at NYU