Fields Medalists Sign Petition Declaring Severe Misalignment Between AI Companies and Math Community
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-12
A declaration on Math and AI argues for a "severe misalignment" of AI in mathematics: LLMs now solve major open problems, but AI companies' push to use math as a benchmark harms the science and the mathematical community — part of broader alignment issues affecting other creative professions and society. Fields Medalists are among the signatories.
The declaration argues that famous problems serve as landmarks whose value lies in the community's long process of talks, simplification, and textbook canonization — a logic at odds with benchmark-chasing. Reposter suchenzang openly mocks the petition, noting 99.99% of global GDP isn't built on Fields-medal-level intellectual work.
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