Fields Medal winners warn AI labs' race to solve famed problems threatens mathematics

Twenty-five Fields Medal winners have signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence labs racing to solve famous mathematics problems risk lasting damage to the field.

• Twenty-five Fields Medal winners signed an open letter warning that the competition among AI companies to solve celebrated mathematics problems threatens permanent harm to the field.
• The letter follows OpenAI's announcement that an unreleased model solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize questions, after 88 hours with thousands of parallel agents.
• The signatories wrote that AI companies' goals and the mathematics community's goals are "largely incompatible," posing a "general threat to intellectual work."
• NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of pressuring him not to credit an Anthropic collaborator for solving an important mathematics problem.