OpenAI researcher expresses regret after being accused of threatening a mathematician
Sébastien Bubeck, a researcher at OpenAI, has issued an apology following allegations that he threatened mathematician Tristan Buckmaster. The conflict arose from a disagreement regarding who deserves credit for a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, which is one of the Millennium Prize Problems. Bubeck explained that he used the phrase "risk your career" only after Buckmaster supposedly threatened to take "unfounded accusations" to the press. Bubeck stated, "I was trying to care for him."