NASEM AI theorem-proving workshop finds few can name a worldview-defining math problem

BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-07-21

At a NASEM workshop on AI and formal theorem proving, one surprising takeaway was that attendees struggled to name a concrete open mathematics problem that they saw as load-bearing for their worldview. The speaker says that absence is baffling.

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