Turing winner Whitfield Diffie: 'I'm concerned by your obsession with IP' at AI-math panel
thoefler · x · 2026-09-22
An "AI and Mathematicians" panel described by the author as "all stages of grief on a single panel" featured Turing Award winner Whitfield Diffie saying, "I am very concerned with you people's concern over intellectual property." The discussion collided proofs, probability, and scaling laws with strong opinions on AI's impact on mathematical research.
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