Anshul Kundaje calls on OpenAI and Anthropic for binding researcher protections
Anshul KundajePersonal public response
Calls on both companies to make clear commitments protecting researchers and favors open models.
Responding to
OpenAI says its researchers and agents did not access Buckmaster and Alpöge's unpublished work for the project.
“very clear legally binding statements”
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Where this statement fits
Did OpenAI improperly pressure mathematicians over authorship and credit?
Tristan Buckmaster describes pressure over authorship and publication during discussions about competing AI-assisted mathematics results. Sébastien Bubeck disputes that characterization and says the proposed authorship concerned OpenAI's own proof. His apology for career-related wording does not settle the disagreement. Researchers and commentators divide over whether the negotiations were appropriate, while raising a separate dispute about the treatment of unpublished user research.
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Conditional policy demand addressed to both OpenAI and Anthropic, rather than proof of a violation in this case.
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Responds to concern about labs competing with scientific users.
After the quotation
Does not claim to know whether particular data was accessed or trained on.
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Why this label?
Kundaje criticizes the governance gap and urgently demands binding protections, favoring open models. Uncertainty about a particular access event does not make that policy criticism mixed.
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- People and groups discussed
- OpenAI, Anthropic
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Classification correction
Correction to: Statement by Anshul Kundaje
- Previous classification
- Mixed or conditional. Conditional policy demand rather than a finding of misconduct in this case.
- Corrected classification
- Condemns. Kundaje criticizes the governance gap and urgently demands binding protections, favoring open models. Uncertainty about a particular access event does not make that policy criticism mixed.
We corrected the editorial classification of Anshul Kundaje's response about Lack of enforceable policy protecting researchers from competitive use. Kundaje criticizes the governance gap and urgently demands binding protections, favoring open models. Uncertainty about a particular access event does not make that policy criticism mixed. This corrects our labeling, not a later change in the speaker's position.
This corrects an editorial classification.
Conditional policy demand addressed to both OpenAI and Anthropic, rather than proof of a violation in this case.
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The Dispute Index. "Anshul Kundaje calls on OpenAI and Anthropic for binding researcher protections". First published: 2026-09-10. Last updated: 2026-09-30. https://disputeindex.com/events/299-calls-on-both-companies-to-make-clear-commitments