Terence Tao: mathematicians now hide research ideas for fear of AI racing them
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-03
Terence Tao says mathematicians are now hiding their research ideas. They used to share promising directions very openly, but now fear that anyone could feed those ideas into a frontier AI model and rush out results before the original researcher finishes the work. The remark comes from a full interview on the SAIR YouTube channel — a striking signal of how AI is reshaping the open-collaboration culture of academia.
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