25 Fields Medalists including Terence Tao sign declaration: AI benchmark-chasing on math is severely misaligned
_beenkim · x · 2026-09-12
Terence Tao is among 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medalists — to a declaration, "A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics." It argues that while LLMs can now solve major open problems, AI companies treating these as benchmarks harms the science and community: famous problems historically seed ideas refined over decades, and turning solving into a benchmark erodes that. The signatories frame it as a broader alignment issue affecting science, creative professions, and society, and are open signatures. beenkim adds that solving Navier-Stokes in days "hits differently."
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