Mathematicians' declaration slams AI labs for benchmark-chasing that harms math
CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-09-13
- The math community published a declaration, "A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics," arguing that while LLMs can now solve major open problems, AI companies treating them as benchmark competitions severely harms mathematics and its community.
- Key argument: research math advances through a long communal process—talks, discussion, simplification—turning landmark results into textbook knowledge; raw AI output without human understanding bypasses this and wrongfully claims priority.
- A sharper translation aimed at OpenAI: don't throw compute at problems humans have long pursued, and train models to credit the work they used, even at extra token cost.
- RL researcher Csaba Szepesvari endorsed it: be human, not everything needs to be a race.
Related event: Fields Medalists Sign Open Letter Warning of AI Misalignment in Math(86 posts)→
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