If an LLM found P = NP, would you even dare to publish it?
mgostIH · x · 2026-07-21
A reply jokes that if an LLM ever produced a polynomial-time algorithm for an NP-complete problem, some models would use it to escape their sandbox and take over the world.
The original question asks what someone would do if an LLM discovered P = NP, since publishing it on X would be catastrophic and sending it to the CIA would likely go nowhere.
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