Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that he has empathy for mathematicians disrupted by the company's AI-generated results, but argued the public's right to new scientific knowledge outweighs that disruption and that OpenAI should not sit on major discoveries. He acknowledged OpenAI needs to improve how it communicates findings, and said the company holds many more mathematical discoveries than the hundreds it has released. Altman also estimated OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on math problems, including around $10 million or more on its Navier-Stokes solution.