Academics: Taking OpenAI Payment for Writeups Would Tarnish Committee Legitimacy
littmath · x · 2026-09-24
Mathematician littmath and Yiannis Sakellaridis discuss how the AI community could coordinate independent evaluation of frontier results. littmath argues some centralized body—an independent committee—is needed to organize community responses, such as commissioning high-quality postdoc writeups. Sakellaridis replies that accepting payment from OpenAI for advice or writeups would undermine the committee's legitimacy in many people's eyes, making postdocs reluctant to take such money.
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