Fields Medalist Terence Tao boosts mathematicians' statement urging a boycott of OpenAI
Eliv_nurotic · reddit · 2026-10-08
Fields Medalist Terence Tao reposted a statement from the Association for Human Mathematics on his blog, urging mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI after the company continued solving open math problems against the community's explicit recommendations.
The flashpoint was OpenAI's October 6 release of mathematical documents. Despite prior requests not to attack open problems without permission, OpenAI pressed ahead, prompting the collective boycott call. Tao—arguably the most influential living mathematician—amplifying the statement marks an open rift between an AI lab and the pure mathematics research community.
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