Timothy Gowers
Professor, Collège de France and University of Cambridge · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Fields Medalist who co-authored early GPT-5 maths papers and sits on the 2026 Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI.
News mentioning Timothy Gowers (7)
- Mathematicians' AGMAI publishes norms for AI labs releasing AI-generated results; Simons Institute TCS group issues 12 actions ★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AGMAI; Tao, Gowers, Hairer, Witten and others) published general recommendations for AI companies releasing mathematical results. They ask labs to release significant results promptly, disclose models, prompts, compute…
- OpenAI says an internal model resolved 100+ long-standing open problems in 24 days of training; no list released ★★★
On 21 Sep 2026 OpenAI said an unnamed internal model had resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems during about 24 days of training (28 Aug – 21 Sep). It released no list and no proofs, and did not define 'resolved'. It also formed a 9-member Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI at IAS…
- 42 mathematician Fellows of the Royal Society, incl. Gowers, Hairer, Maynard and Scholze, call AI an 'emergency' in open letter to Paul Nurse ★★★★
On 16 Sep 2026 42 mathematical Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society sent an open letter to its President, Sir Paul Nurse, expressing "extreme concern about the pace of development of AI". They wrote that in three months OpenAI's and Anthropic's models went from strong-student level to…
- Fields Medallists' open letter 'A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics' criticises labs' race for famous problems ★★★
On 11 Sep 2026 about 25 Fields Medallists, including Terence Tao, Peter Scholze, Maryna Viazovska and Pierre Deligne, published an open letter criticising AI labs for treating famous open problems as marketing targets. It cited the Navier–Stokes announcement and the Jacobian-conjecture tweet. It…
- OpenAI model disproves Erdős's 80-year-old unit distance conjecture ★★★★★
On 2026-05-20 OpenAI announced that an internal model found a counterexample to Erdős's 1946 unit-distance conjecture using algebraic number theory — widely described as the first historically significant proof produced by an AI; Timothy Gowers said he would recommend it to the Annals of…
- OpenAI publishes 'Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5', including four new math results ★★★
On 20 Nov 2025 OpenAI and academic co-authors, including Timothy Gowers, released case studies of GPT-5 contributing to research in maths, physics, astronomy, computer science, biology and materials science. The paper includes four new mathematical results checked by the human authors. It frames…
- AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reach IMO silver-medal standard ★★★★
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof (RL + Lean formal proofs) and AlphaGeometry 2 solved 4 of 6 problems at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, scoring 28/42 — silver-medal level, one point short of gold.
Posts (5)
- Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence original ↗ OpenAI @OpenAI · blog · 2026-09-21
Source of OpenAI's claim that an internal model resolved 100+ long-standing open math problems; creates an IAS-hosted review body. - Announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence original ↗ Terence Tao (for AGMAI) · blog · 2026-09-21
Nine leading mathematicians (Gowers, Hairer, Witten, Vakil, Wood…) formed an unpaid, independent group to advise OpenAI on releasing its 100+ claimed math results. - Why I didn't sign the Fields medallists' letter original ↗ Timothy Gowers @wtgowers · blog · 2026-09-17
The most prominent dissent from the Fields Medallists' declaration: a Fields medallist who agrees there is a crisis but rejects the letter's framing and demands. - A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics original ↗ Fields Medallists (Tao, Deligne, Donaldson, Bhargava, Scholze, Maynard, Avila et al.) · other · 2026-09-11
The original text of the Fields Medallists' declaration, the most senior collective statement by mathematicians against AI labs' approach to mathematics. - Tao: 25 Fields Medalists make a joint declaration on Math and AI original ↗ Terence Tao @tao@mathstodon.xyz · other · 2026-09-11
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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