If AI solves a Millennium Prize problem using human research, who gets credit?
Egologic · reddit · 2026-09-10
A Reddit user asks how credit should be assigned if AI solves a Millennium Prize problem by building on human research. They describe a self-reinforcing 'flywheel effect': researchers post raw math theories and progress to arXiv and elsewhere, AI companies scrape it to train the next model, and that model may be what finally cracks the problem. The post sparked debate over attribution among the original poster, cited researchers, and model vendors in the AI era.
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