The article uses the credit dispute between OpenAI and NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster over the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem as a case study in how AI is upending scientific attribution. It argues that traditional recognition systems like the Nobel Prize, designed to honor individual human excellence, become structurally obsolete once computational systems can produce headline-grabbing breakthroughs. It further contends that credit-sharing conventions built for human collaborators do not map cleanly onto a mixed human-AI discovery process.
