Altman sympathizes with mathematicians but says OpenAI's flood of AI results won't stop
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-30
After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman directly addressed the controversy for the first time on the Cheeky Pint podcast released Thursday. He said he has "empathy for the method" and the researchers struggling to keep up, but "on net, the world deserves to understand how the universe works" — so the onslaught won't stop, and he hinted much more from the company's stockpile of discoveries could be coming.
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