Stanford prof urges OpenAI and Anthropic to issue legally binding statements ASAP

mo_lotfollahi · x · 2026-09-09

Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje publicly calls on OpenAI and Anthropic to release clear, legally binding statements prohibiting the behavior at the center of the recent controversy, warning it would otherwise be "a legal disaster for science." He argues this is one more reason to favor open-source models not controlled by companies.

The statement comes amid the debate over AI solving major open math problems, reflecting academia's concerns about research-use boundaries of closed frontier models.

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