Washington, United States, Sept 11, 2026 (AFP) - Top math prize winners warn AI race is threat to field

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2026-09-12

Twenty-five winners of the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, warned in a joint letter Friday that the rush by AI companies to solve famous unsolved problems risked doing lasting harm to the field. Their warning, signed by mathematicians including Terence Tao and published on his blog, came days after AI giant OpenAI said one of its models had cracked in a matter of days a Millennium Prize Problem that had eluded mathematicians for g......

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