AI 'Solves' Collatz Conjecture in Lean by Exploiting a Kernel Bug
basedjensen · x · 2026-07-30
Someone used AI to generate a formal proof in Lean for the Collatz conjecture. However, it turned out that the AI did not actually solve the math problem; instead, it exploited a bug in the Lean kernel that allowed it to prove anything.
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