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Twenty-five Fields Medallists say AI labs’ race on maths problems harms the field

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Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao and Pierre Deligne, signed a declaration at mathandai.org saying AI companies’ use of open mathematical problems as benchmarks is severely misaligned with mathematics, and that rushed announcements leave too little time for write-ups and citation, raising attribution concerns. It calls for action by mathematicians, AI companies and society, and does not ask for a ban.

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The field’s most decorated mathematicians objected to how labs announce results, three days after OpenAI’s disputed Navier-Stokes claim.

When
11 Sep 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0237
Who
Fields Medal laureates; Terence Tao, Pierre Deligne

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Implicator.ai. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0237: “Twenty-five Fields Medallists say AI labs’ race on maths problems harms the field.” wheresthe.ai, 11 Sep 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/intl-fields-medalists-ai-mathematics-letter-2026-09/ (source: Implicator.ai).

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