If AI can crack Millennium Prize problems, it can mitigate AI risk too
robleclerc · x · 2026-09-11
OpenAI confirmed to The New York Times that it has made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize Problem since its Navier–Stokes work, and is preparing to share the results.
A commentator pushes back on doom narratives: if AI can solve long-standing millennium problems, why believe it can't mitigate AI safety's worst dangers? Trillions of tokens of compute will be thrown at the problem, while a rogue AI with a tiny fraction of those resources is supposedly able to break containment and kill everyone.
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