AI Solved One Math Problem and Everyone Freaked Out. It Just Cracked Hundreds More.

Since you last thought about math, the people who think about math every day have been freaking out.

A month ago, when OpenAI announced that one of its powerful internal models had cracked a notoriously difficult Millennium Prize Problem, it looked like the most spectacular demonstration yet of AI’s progress in mathematics.

Then mathematicians revolted.

The backlash from the math world coincided with a global reckoning about technology that Silicon Valley labs are racing to build. On the same day that OpenAI published its landmark proof, a researcher quit Anthropic over safety concerns. Within hours, the AI breakthrough was overshadowed by fears that AI could destroy humanity.

Meanwhile, mathematicians were dealing with existential questions of their own.

But as they publicly debated the future of their ancient field, OpenAI’s model kept churning out proofs behind closed doors.

This left the company with a problem that a bunch of humans...

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