Mathematicians accuse Anthropic of scooping personal math collaborations, sparking ethics uproar
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-10
Mathematician Alpoge posted that on September 2nd he urgently contacted Anthropic, stressing that a year-long, strictly personal mathematical collaboration was known to the lab and that a group had apparently been spun up to compete — yet per Linus Mixson, Anthropic still scooped Kevin Buzzard's personal math collaboration a week earlier with no attempt to include him. Mixson sharply criticized the lab for dropping zero-effort proofs that obviate years of researchers' work while posting 'weepy lowercase' anecdotes about it, and questioned leadership conduct. The episode has ignited debate over frontier-lab ethics around scooping academic work.
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