25 Fields Medal winners warn AI companies; AI engineer fires back: it's just progress
JFPuget · 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.
- AI engineer bingxu pushed back: probably only 1-5 engineers alive can write better GPU kernels than AI, yet no kernel engineer is writing protest letters — we simply treat it as productivity progress. Mathematicians, he argues, should learn adaptivity from AI engineers.
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