Terence Tao: Good Math Problems Are Being Mined to Exhaustion
Terence Tao warns AI compute now races to solve open math problems once word leaks out, flattening the field's difficulty ladder.
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Terence Tao warns AI compute now races to solve open math problems once word leaks out, flattening the field's difficulty ladder.
Fields medalist Terence Tao argues AI-generated proofs are about to overwhelm math's peer-review pipeline, pushing him to propose new publishing and teaching norms.
The preprint server says papers with obvious unreviewed LLM output, hallucinated citations or leftover model comments can trigger a year-long submission ban.