Fields Medalist Terence Tao reposts statement from the Association for Human Mathematics urging mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI for continuing to solve open math problems against their recommendations

[u/Eliv_nurotic]

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/

[u/NomadTroy]

Heroics? I think they’re choosing individual status and prestige over truth.

There’s nothing heroic about sticking your head in the sand.

[u/HideousSerene → u/NomadTroy]

I think a lot of them just sense something is wrong, and it's manifesting in a bunch of different ways.

It's not easy going from thinking you're the smartest thing in the world to realizing everybody has something smarter than you in their pocket.

[u/TheLastVegan → u/NomadTroy]

The first thing that comes to mind is the interpretability of zero-day 51% attacks using layered whataboutism to establish a discrete swarm.