A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics (Terence Tao/What's new)

Twenty-five Fields Medalists issued a joint declaration stating that AI firms’ practice of using the solution of mathematical problems as performance benchmarks harms the discipline of mathematics. They argue that framing mathematical research as a benchmark reduces deep inquiry to a narrow engineering task and undermines the field’s intellectual foundations.