OpenAI Forms Independent Math Advisory Panel of 9 Mathematicians After Model Solves 100+ Open Problems
智东西 · wechat · 2026-09-22
OpenAI announced a new independent Mathematics and AI advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, with nine prominent mathematicians as founding members — including Camillo De Lellis, who signed a Fields medalist-led public letter criticizing AI companies for using famous open problems as model benchmarks.
Context: OpenAI began training a new internal model on August 28 and claims it has solved over 100 long-standing open problems across most branches of mathematics, in addition to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem.
The group's role: advising on the significance of new results and coordinating their release. Members are unpaid but can proactively advise, publish their own views, and determine the group's composition, preserving independence from OpenAI. It will not advise on the pace of OpenAI's internal math research, and IAS stresses it holds no decision-making power at any AI company.
The debate is shifting from "can AI solve problems" to how results should be evaluated, published, and who bears responsibility — and whether this panel provides real oversight remains to be seen.
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