25 Fields Medalists Warn Against AI Math Hype as Caltech Mathathon Announces Six-Month Verification Round
furongh · x · 2026-09-13
25 Fields Medalists — including Terence Tao, Peter Scholze, June Huh, Maryna Viazovska, Martin Hairer, and Cedric Villani — signed "A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics," warning that solving more problems is not advancing understanding. The target: Caltech's Mathathon (Oct 30), an LLM-prompting math hackathon backed by $2M in AI credits from Anthropic and OpenAI. Caltech mathematicians' open letter accuses AI companies of treating research math as an advertising opportunity and scooping human mathematicians; organizers responded with a six-month verification round.
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