Let me get this straight: Mathematics community responds to AI by threatening the participants, most of them are just students?

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Mathematicians published an open letter demanding the cancellation of Caltech Mathathon, a student-run hackathon using frontier LLMs, with warnings that participation could harm students' reputations, highlighting tensions in the AI ethics debate within academia.

On September 10, mathematicians published an open letter demanding the cancellation of the Caltech Mathathon, a student-run hackathon where 100 teams would use frontier LLMs on open problems, backed by $2M in credits from Anthropic and OpenAI. One clause warns that participation could damage students' future reputations. The bullet opens by noting that the mathematical community has no consensus on how to evaluate AI-generated results or how to deal with AI companies. It then states that taking part in an event tied so closely to Anthropic and OpenAI "could plausibly negatively impact the future reputations of participants The organizers are undergraduates; the people who decide those reputations are the signatories. I guess this is the real thing that math cannot be replaced by AI, huh? What a group of innocent geniuses that only enjoys the beauty of mathematics itself.
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