Tao: 25 Fields Medalists make a joint declaration on Math and AI
Terence Tao @tao@mathstodon.xyz · other · 2026-09-11 · ★★★★ · archived
Tao's announcement of the Fields Medallists' declaration 'A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics', which says AI labs' race to solve famous problems is at odds with mathematics' goals.
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Mathstodon post of 11 Sep 2026 (684 favourites, Tao's most-liked post of the period). Tao announces that 25 Fields Medalists, himself included, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI at mathandai.org. He invites further signatories "similar to the Leiden declaration" and links The Economist's piece "Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI's methods". The declaration came days after OpenAI's Navier–Stokes blow-up announcement and the Buckmaster priority dispute. It was accompanied by a long run of guest posts on Tao's blog (Totaro, Thom, Strogatz, Kra, Riehl, Cohn, Gowers' dissent and others). Verified via the Mastodon API.
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