25 Fields Medal Winners Warn of AI Misalignment With Math Community, Spark Process-vs-Result Debate
arampell · x · 2026-09-12
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners published a joint declaration warning of a severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community. The post pushes back with a reductio: would we say AI finding a cancer therapeutic target in six hours harms oncology because grad students were supposed to spend years on it? Universalizing 'the human process itself is valuable' leads to deeply strange conclusions.
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