Mark Chen on Artificial Intelligence

Statements and actions by Mark Chen on this topic.

Public disputes concerning artificial intelligence, including its development, uses, safety, governance, effects on creative work, and role in research.

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Statement history

1 statement on this page. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 matching statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 published statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

Challenged the characterization

1 published statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 statement on this page. Dates: September 8, 2026

Mark Chen

Role at the time: OpenAI researcher explaining the company's process on his account

September 8, 2026Challenged the characterization

Responding to

OpenAI says its researchers and agents did not access Buckmaster and Alpöge's unpublished work for the project.

"Did any human or agent look at user data as part of the Navier Stokes effort? No."

Why we used this label

Narrow factual counter-position; does not eliminate the company's caveat about general training data.

Mark Chen distinguishes targeted user-data access from model improvement

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Explicit denial that humans or agents accessed user data for the effort, while affirming broader use of de-identified data and feedback.

Our account of this statement has been corrected. 1 correction

Read statement Did OpenAI improperly pressure mathematicians over authorship and credit?