25 Fields Medalists Warn of 'Severe Misalignment' Between AI Labs and Math Community
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-13
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners jointly warned of severe misalignment between AI companies and the mathematics community. A widely shared reading argues the letter is often misread: the key passage stresses that driving AI fastest requires good questions, design taste, and pushback—skills rooted in PhD training—positioning top mathematicians as masters of AI rather than its casualties.
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