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divide over whether the negotiations were appropriate, while raising a separate dispute about the treatment of unpublished user research.
Andreas Thom is a mathematician at Technische Universität Dresden. His research spans geometric group theory, real algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, ergodic theory, and operator algebras. He also participates in public discussions about mathematical research and scientific practice.
Associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, researching the theoretical foundations of reinforcement learning.
