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GPT

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Benefit

+4.27

Harm

−0.21

Net Good

4.06

Releases

Leaderboard

RankModelOrganizationBenefitHarmNetEventsLast impact
9ChatGPT

GPT

OpenAI+2.68−0.212.47222 Jun 2023
37GPT-5 Pro

GPT

OpenAI+0.910.000.91124 Oct 2025
48GPT-4

GPT

OpenAI+0.400.000.4028 May 2024
53GPT-5

GPT

OpenAI+0.280.000.28120 Nov 2025

Timeline

Events

Benefit20 Nov 2025

GPT-5 supplies key steps on Erdős 848, a tree-count inequality, and network identifiability

In a 20 November 2025 OpenAI science-acceleration paper, GPT-5 helped Mehtaab Sawhney and Mark Sellke finish Erdős problem 848, produced a short proof of a conjectured small-subgraph inequality in trees that Bubeck, Sellke, and Yin checked, and pointed to leaf fraction as the statistic that identifies a hidden network parameter.

MathematicsverifiedTier 2 Notable+0.28
Benefit24 Oct 2025

Ryu and Jang, using GPT-5 Pro, prove point convergence of Nesterov accelerated gradient

In October 2025 UCLA mathematicians Ernest Ryu and Uijeong Jang resolved the long-open question of whether Nesterov’s 1983 accelerated gradient method converges in iterates, in a collaboration they describe as heavily assisted by GPT-5 Pro. The human authors wrote and checked the final proof.

MathematicsprovisionalTier 3 Major+0.91
Harm4 Jul 2025

Deloitte refunds part of an Australian government report after GPT-4o hallucinations

Deloitte Australia’s July 2025 welfare-compliance review for DEWR, produced with Azure OpenAI GPT-4o, contained fabricated citations and a misquoted judgment; a corrected version was issued and Deloitte agreed to repay the final contract installment.

Computer ScienceretractedTier 2 Significant Harm0.09
Benefit8 May 2024

ChemCrow uses GPT-4 plus tools to execute organic-chemistry tasks

EPFL and collaborators published ChemCrow in Nature Machine Intelligence on 8 May 2024, an agent that used GPT-4 and 18 chemistry tools to plan syntheses including an insect repellent and organocatalysts.

ChemistryverifiedTier 2 Notable+0.16
Benefit20 Dec 2023

Coscientist uses GPT-4 to plan and run robotic chemistry experiments

Carnegie Mellon researchers showed a GPT-4-driven agent, Coscientist, that searched literature, wrote robot code, and optimized palladium-catalyzed couplings, published in Nature on 20 December 2023.

ChemistryverifiedTier 2 Notable+0.26
Harm22 Jun 2023

Lawyers sanctioned after ChatGPT fabricates cases in Mata v. Avianca

On 22 June 2023 the S.D.N.Y. sanctioned attorneys $5,000 for submitting nonexistent opinions generated by ChatGPT in Roberto Mata’s personal-injury suit against Avianca.

Computer ScienceverifiedTier 2 Significant Harm0.21
Benefit30 Nov 2022

ChatGPT launches and becomes a default professional writing and coding tool

On 30 November 2022 OpenAI released ChatGPT, a GPT-3.5 conversational product, as a free research preview. Within months it was in daily use for software, documentation, and knowledge work, creating the interface that later coding agents still copy.

Computer ScienceverifiedTier 3 Major+2.68