Scott Aaronson: AI labs sitting on major problem solutions after math community backlash
Tolopono · reddit · 2026-09-16
Quantum computing researcher and UT Austin CS chair Scott Aaronson writes in a blog post that AI companies, burned by the hostile reception of a Navier-Stokes proof, are now sitting on solutions to some very major problems until they find a better way to release them — suggesting frontier labs may already hold major mathematical breakthroughs they're withholding.
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