Terence Tao reposts mathematicians' statement urging a boycott of OpenAI over math releases
Eliv_nurotic · reddit · 2026-10-08
A Reddit post reports that Fields Medalist Terence Tao reposted a statement from the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM), which responds to OpenAI's October 6 release of mathematical documents. The AHM urges mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI, citing its continued use of AI to solve open math problems against the community's prior recommendations. The statement is linked via Tao's blog, and the episode highlights an open conflict between the math community and OpenAI over AI's role in unsolved-problem research.
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