TERENCE TAO SAYS OPENAI MATH RELEASE DISRUPTED JUNIOR RESEARCHER WORK

What happened: Mathematician Terence Tao said OpenAI's release of AI-developed mathematics disrupted some junior researchers' projects, with mathematicians on overlapping problems given no advance notice. Why it matters: Tao worries mathematicians may withhold questions if they fear an AI system could solve them first, and criticized AI companies' competition to release more capable systems as coming at the expense of human understanding and safety.

Mathematician Terence Tao said OpenAI's release of AI-developed mathematics disrupted some junior researchers' projects, with mathematicians on overlapping problems given no advance notice.

Tao worries mathematicians may withhold questions if they fear an AI system could solve them first, and criticized AI companies' competition to release more capable systems as coming at the expense of human understanding and safety.