Terence Tao and 24 Fields Medallists sign declaration warning AI is misaligned with mathematics
Loo_Atreides · x · 2026-09-13
Terence Tao and 24 other Fields Medallists signed a declaration warning that AI is misaligned with what mathematics is actually for, widely read as a swipe at OpenAI's claim that internal models plus 10k agents solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem.
Key points:
- The objection isn't whether AI can do math, but that solutions get announced in a rush with no proper writeups or isolated new methods;
- Prior human work goes uncited, muddying attribution and raising plagiarism questions;
- Math problems are treated as benchmarks to brute-force with compute;
- Most concerning: the human transmission chain that keeps ideas alive gets cut.
Related event: Fields Medalists Sign Open Letter Warning of AI-Mathematics Misalignment(91 posts)→
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