A prominent mathematician at New York University has publicly accused OpenAI of unethical conduct, claiming the AI research company secretly leveraged proprietary research and engaged in aggressive tactics to solve a famous unsolved mathematics problem to boost its benchmark credentials.
The controversy centers on a career-defining mathematical conjecture, where OpenAI’s reasoning models were allegedly trained on non-public academic drafts and unverified solutions without proper attribution or academic collaboration. The allegations have reignited intense debates within the scientific community regarding research ethics, data collection practices, and the growing friction between commercial frontier AI labs and traditional academic institutions.
