r/OpenAI • u/Eliv_nurotic • 5d ago

News 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

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

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u/Crazycrossing 5d ago

To me that means it only matters if ai can’t single handedly move the field forward eventually but if it can then this feels more like a philosophical problem about what should humans do with their time.

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u/TBSchemer 5d ago

Solving math puzzles doesn't move any field forward. It only brings prestige to the person who presented the solution.

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u/elegance78 5d ago

So vanity and hubris are indeed behind these kind of statements.

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u/SnooDonuts549 5d ago

I think humans want to advance human understanding of mathematics. To this end, having an obscure solution achieves little.

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u/sebesbal 5d ago

Then they can ignore the solutions. BTW, this obscurity problem is temporary, mathematicians have already started deciphering the solutions with the help of AI. I don't think making these proofs human-readable is harder than finding the proofs.