Mathematician's real worry: AI companies are exploiting math's culture of openness
sokrypton · x · 2026-10-12
Developer sokrypton relays and interprets a mathematician's concern: the issue isn't that AI is solving math problems, but that AI companies have taken advantage of mathematicians' tradition of being open about the problems they're working on. The worry isn't the solved problems themselves, but what this exploitation of openness does to the next generation of mathematicians.
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