"How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field
OpenAI released over 700 manuscripts claiming solutions to hundreds of open math problems, shocking leading mathematicians.
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Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students
Two high school students used Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to help solve an open Lorentzian polynomials problem, posting a 75-page arXiv proof.
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Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao, warn AI companies' benchmark-driven approach to mathematics is misaligned with the discipline's purpose of understanding.
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OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
25 Fields Medalists sign an open letter warning AI labs threaten math attribution; NYU's Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of pressuring him over collaborator credit.
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A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
25 Fields Medallists including Terence Tao issue a declaration warning that AI companies' benchmark-driven mathematics goals are misaligned with science and society.
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