AnalysisScienceSeptember 19, 2026

Mathematicians rely on AI they say threatens their field

NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of using his work to beat him to the $1M-bounty Navier-Stokes problem, then kept using Codex to tidy his papers. OpenAI amended its announcement to say his Codex prompts "could not have influenced the system in any way."

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Mathematicians rely on AI they say threatens their field