Stanford's Rishi Bommasani Slams Frontier AI Labs for Treating Research Math as a Benchmark
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-09-08
Rishi Bommasani criticizes frontier AI companies for treating research mathematics as a fancy benchmark to showcase AI prowess, calling it a desecration of a human intellectual tradition.
He notes the irony: these labs employ many excellent mathematicians and people with math backgrounds, and mathematics is an institution they have long admired. He urges companies to treat the discipline and its scholars with respect and dignity, arguing that AI-driven mathematical innovation shouldn't come at the cost of plundering and conquering the field.
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