Sabine Hossenfelder questions whether OpenAI is buying academic credibility
skdh · x · 2026-09-25
Physicist and science communicator Sabine Hossenfelder argued on the Origins Project podcast that OpenAI has spent the past year heavily promoting a 'scientific angle' — including PhD partnerships with Ivy League universities — and questioned whether the company is effectively buying academic credibility to lend legitimacy to its AI narrative.
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