Math group AHM slams OpenAI's 700-file math release as 'a demonstration of power'
emollick · x · 2026-10-09
The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) published a statement opposing OpenAI's October 6 release of a repository of manuscripts purporting to solve high-profile math problems, urging mathematicians to cut ties with the company.
Key points:
- OpenAI, currently defending lawsuits over plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution, dumped 700+ files at once — "not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power."
- OpenAI's own advisory body, the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, had said frontier AI labs should not test advanced math problems on internal models; AHM says the release ignores that premise entirely.
- AHM rejects the claim that this advances mathematics and calls for science centered on human understanding.
Ethan Mollick noted the document will likely become assigned reading in college classes covering this moment in time.
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