25 Fields Medalists warn of severe misalignment between AI companies and math community
DynamicWebPaige · x · 2026-09-12
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have published a joint declaration warning of what they see as a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community.
The retweeter adds historical context from Richard Hamming's 1995 lecture "Experts": senior Bell Labs mathematicians collectively resisted computers, each seeing them "as being inferior… and possibly in direct competition with them" — drawing a parallel to mathematicians' current stance on AI.
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