Witten, Tong, Maldacena sign statement urging AI companies to openly release HEP research results

kylekabasares · x · 2026-11-15

Theoretical high-energy physicists have published a statement urging AI companies to openly and fully release major research results produced in their field, arguing that breakthroughs increasingly come from internal LLMs at AI companies and that closed results would recreate the pre-arXiv inequity where well-connected institutions saw findings first.

• The statement invokes the field's open tradition — the World Wide Web and arXiv both born in HEP — arguing open release puts all researchers on equal footing and speeds community scrutiny
• Initial signatories include Ofer Aharony and Dionysios Anninos; a repost confirms Edward Witten, David Tong, and Juan Maldacena have also signed
• The statement focuses on how results are shared rather than the research itself, and is open for additional signatures

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