After Terence Tao urged slower AI math progress, OpenAI formed an advisory group with no pacing power
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-22
The author lays out the timeline: Terence Tao said "the AIs are steamrolling through math everywhere... we have to slow down, it's insane the pace, there is no reason to be this fast."
Ten days later, OpenAI announced an "Advisory Group" for mathematicians, alongside claims that its model "has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems." Notably, the group "will NOT be responsible for advising us on how to pace our internal progress on mathematics" — which the author reads as pure optics with no real slowdown.
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