42 leading mathematicians warn AI existential risk is real and urgent
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-18
42 Fellows of the Royal Society, including Fields Medal winners Martin Hairer and Peter Scholze, warn in an open letter that AI existential risk is real and urgent.
They note leading models have solved open research problems within months, and the same capabilities could be turned to cyberweapons or bioweapons. By the time the public grasps the situation, they argue, it may be too late to act.
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