OpenAI's 722-Paper Math Dump Triggers Mathematician Boycott
File photo: Albert Einstein at a blackboard in Pasadena, 1931 — back when mathematics moved at chalk speed. Photo: Associated Press via Wikimedia Commons (public domain). On October 6, OpenAI dumped 722 AI-generated mathematics manuscripts onto GitHub and framed it as an effort "to push the frontier of human knowledge and enable further progress in mathematics." Within a day, three of those manuscripts were dead — undone by a single sign error. And within two days, a group calling itself the Association for Human Mathematics was urging mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI altogether. Welcome to the ugliest fight between Silicon Valley and pure mathematics yet. It is a fight about proof, power, and who gets to decide when a problem is actually solved. And it is the second one OpenAI has started in two months. The biggest math release in history — all at once Here is what is not in dispute. On October 6, OpenAI opened a public GitHub repository, openai/math, and...