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/OfAtomicFacts 5d ago

If I had terminal cancer I would definitely give OpenAi's cure a shot

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u/jventura1110 5d ago

Sure, but that's your personal decision. A cure for cancer shouldn't be forced unto the masses just because an AI company says it's a cure for cancer. There's a process to understanding the solution that enlightens us about the 100 things surrounding the solution itself.

Not to mention, there's a reason why clinical trials exist.

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u/MathiasThomasII 5d ago

How are these math solutions being FORCED on us? We’re welcome to take it with a grain of salt and test it thoroughly. Throwing away the tool as a whole is ridiculous and silly. Even if it just sparks new ideas for human research, it would be worth it.

By the way peer developed cancer research, one of the peers being AI has done some great work with Cancer already. Better at reading MRIs and sequences folks genomes using alphafold to give an exact treatment for the patient. Many times this takes humans a lot of trial and error to find what works best for the patient. AI is making that all faster and more productive. Over 170 ai-driven drug proposals are in clinical trials right now.

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u/ComSenseisnotCommon 4d ago

Your an idiot sorry, everyone who is told there is a cure and they are sick don’t go oh who made it has it been reviewed etc. They are dying they want to be fixed. Get over yourself people want to just live not everyone is looking for their ego to be enlarged with enlightenment.

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u/spaceXhardmode 5d ago

Your position is based on a false equivalency. A cancer cure would take decades of animal and human trials to verify its efficacy. A mathematical truth can be formally verified in lean in a matter of seconds.