25 Fields Medalists including Tao warn AI firms' approach to math is 'severely misaligned'
量子位 · wechat · 2026-09-12
Terence Tao, Yu Deng and 25 Fields Medalists jointly issued an emergency statement (mathandai.org) warning that AI companies' benchmark-driven approach to mathematics is "severely misaligned" with the math community's goal of conceptual understanding and insight. The trigger: OpenAI's announcement that 10,000 agents solved Navier-Stokes in 88 hours, sparking disputes over prompt ownership, idea appropriation and authorship. Their three core concerns: AI solves problems faster than the community can digest them; benchmark metrics diverge from math's culture of method and transmission; open problems are being depleted faster than new ones are created, threatening training and the human knowledge-transmission chain.
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