Mathematicians go quiet as AI agents can scoop openly shared problems
sokrypton · x · 2026-10-12
sokrypton relays and elaborates a mathematician's concern: the worry isn't that AI solves math problems, but that AI companies exploit mathematicians' tradition of openly sharing open questions.
- Math has always run on senior people freely sharing open problems with students and peers.
- If any flagged problem can be scooped by a company's AI agents, people stop sharing — and some already have.
- The mourning is for the culture itself and what its loss means for the next generation.
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