This declaration was made September 10th. It has over 5000 signatures now.
Over the last few months, the mathematical capabilities of LLMs have improved dramatically, to the point that they can solve major outstanding problems in many fields of mathematics. However, the push by AI companies to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics, and to the mathematical community. The goals of the AI companies and the goals of the mathematical community are severely misaligned. We see these as part of broader alignment issues impacting other scientific and creative professions, as well as the whole of society. more
I feel this has nothing to do with mathematics in specific but generalizes to almost everything. Same story with computer programming, jobs where you’d need some knowledge or skill, school homework, art… As long as there’s humans involved who could grow or learn while doing something, AI is misaligned. Also once there’s more to the result than just turning something, (anything,) in and calling it a day.