AI Rivalry Sparks Career Threat
A major math breakthrough sparked a bitter dispute between rival AI labs. Here is why one mathematician claims his career was threatened.
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Why would you ruin your career? That is the threat mathematician Tristan Buckmaster faced over his latest paper.
He claims he was pressured to alter authorship to disadvantage a rival AI lab. The pressure allegedly intensified as both sides raced to publish a major math solution.
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubake allegedly made the threat to Buckmaster during a dispute over dropping an Anthropic co-author from their breakthrough.
