Samuel Davenport on Artificial Intelligence

Statements and actions by Samuel Davenport 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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1 statement on this page. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 matching statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

1 published statement. Dates: September 8, 2026

Samuel Davenport
Role at the time: Personal public response to Bubeck
September 8, 2026Challenged the characterization
Responding to
Bubeck says the disputed authorship proposal concerned a rewrite of OpenAI's proof, not removing Alpöge from his own work.
"That is clearly contradictory."
Why we used this label
Challenges the coherence of the credit explanation, not the mathematical proof.
Samuel Davenport challenges the coherence of the credit explanation (opens in a new tab)

Questions why a company would claim the result while offering academic accolades to the other researchers.

Our account of this statement has been corrected. 1 correction

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