OpenAI withdraws Caltech Mathathon sponsorship after math community pushback
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-11
- OpenAI announced it has withdrawn sponsorship of the Caltech Mathathon after concerns raised by members of the mathematics community, and notified the organizers.
- The company says it wants to engage the math community more on integrating AI and communicating its impacts.
- Quoting the announcement, Elliot Glazer sarcastically thanked OpenAI for sparing academia from undergrads accessing the tool increasingly essential to modern math research, highlighting the field's divide over AI tools.
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