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A commentary highlighting the perceived hypocrisy of mathematicians who spent decades justifying taxpayer funding on societal benefit grounds, but now decry AI solving famous open problems as harmful to the field and its community.
Ben Goertzel comments on the anti-AI declaration by Fields Medalists, discussing the relevance of big prizes and the true aims of AI in mathematics.
Timothy Gowers explains why he did not sign a letter from 25 Fields medallists about AI's impact on mathematics, sharing a personal story and offering an alternative perspective on the crisis.
OpenAI's claim of proving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem has sparked a credit dispute with independent mathematicians, leading to criticism from Fields Medalists about AI's impact on scientific credit and research practices.
Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman is joining OpenAI to work on AI safety, using his mathematical expertise to address existential risks from AI.
Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman announces his departure from academia to join OpenAI's safety team, while NVIDIA explores massive financing for a data center and the open-source Kimi K3 model (2.8T parameters) is released.
The Fields Medals 2026, often considered the Nobel Prize of mathematics, will be awarded to up to four mathematicians under 40 for outstanding contributions.
Codex, an AI model, scraped the ICM website and discovered a hidden list of 2026 Fields Medal winners, including Peking University alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng.
Peking University won two Fields Medals this year, becoming the top mathematics university in Asia.
Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers reports using GPT5.5 Pro to solve open mathematical problems and predicts an imminent crisis in mathematical research due to rapid AI progress.
Maryna Viazovska was awarded the 2022 Fields Medal for proving the E8 lattice provides the densest sphere packing in 8D and advancing Fourier analysis.