OpenAI dismissed mathematicians' warnings, treated math as an IPO pitch: account
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-10
Responding to a quip about mathematicians asking to defund math research, gerardsans says the real story is a saga since the summer in which OpenAI repeatedly dismissed warnings from mathematicians. The two sides collaborated until it became clear the labs weren't interested in math itself, but in framing it as an IPO multiplier pitch.
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