Andreas Kirsch calls the OpenAI mathematician dispute very messy
Andreas KirschPersonal public response
Says Bubeck's account fits his expectations, urges comparison of the actual results and conditionally congratulates all involved.
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Bubeck says the disputed authorship proposal concerned a rewrite of OpenAI's proof, not removing Alpöge from his own work.
“The whole thing is def very messy”
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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divide over whether the negotiations were appropriate, while raising a separate dispute about the treatment of unpublished user research.
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Says the account fits his expectations, calls the situation messy and qualifies congratulations on the results checking out.
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Shares Bubeck's account after the initial allegations.
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Conditions congratulations on the mathematical results checking out.
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Qualified acceptance of the explanation without declaring the whole dispute resolved.
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The Dispute Index. "Andreas Kirsch calls the OpenAI mathematician dispute very messy". First published: 2026-09-10. Last updated: 2026-09-30. https://disputeindex.com/events/304-says-bubeck-s-account-fits-his-expectations-urges