OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again
OpenAI backs independent nine-mathematician advisory panel (AGMAI) at IAS to guide how AI math results are reviewed and released.
Following criticism over its release of mathematical results, OpenAI announced the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AGMAI), a nine-member panel hosted by Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Members come from Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge, include multiple Fields Medalists, are unpaid by OpenAI, and can publicly comment and publish advice. The group will advise on reviewing and communicating emerging results, with early access to OpenAI research. Mathematicians welcomed it as a first step but questioned member selection, actual influence, and representativeness; member Martin Hairer defended its independence in a blog post.
- Nine-member AGMAI hosted at IAS, unpaid, can publish advice OpenAI did not request.
- Formed after OpenAI's controversial releases of mathematical results.
- Members include Fields Medalists from Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge.
- Researchers question selection process, influence, and community representativeness.
- Organizations
- OpenAIInstitute for Advanced StudyAGMAIMartin Hairer
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After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward.
By Robert Hart · theverge.com
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