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OpenAI Math Release Prompts Terence Tao to Back Call to Halt Work With Company

OpenAI solved or partly solved 372 advanced math problems, TechRadar reports; Terence Tao backs halting work with company.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-13 05:21

The scale of the release—722 papers—makes the work difficult for human mathematicians to understand and verify, TechRadar reported. Some of the solutions are clear but cannot be understood by some humans. Two years earlier, AI struggled with GCSE-level mathematics; now it is solving problems that humans took years even to establish as existing.

The publication followed OpenAI’s proposal for the Navier-Stokes equation, concerning the behavior of viscous fluids, generated by its unreleased specialized math model a few weeks earlier, according to TechRadar.

Tao, described by TechRadar as one of the field’s leading voices and the greatest living mind in mathematics, shared a post from the Association for Human Mathematics after OpenAI’s contribution. The association concluded: “Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.”

The Association for Human Mathematics said mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done. It added that the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, from which OpenAI has claimed to derive its legitimacy, opened its initial advisory statement by saying that frontier AI corporations should not test advanced mathematical problems on internal models, according to TechRadar.

The association said that by ignoring the advisory group’s position, OpenAI had gone beyond the pale and “indicated total disregard for the norms of scientific research — norms that guarantee that mathematics remains trustworthy, ethically researched, and in the public interest.” It encouraged mathematicians to treat the publication with “due skepticism.”

OpenAI responded by stating “we want this progress to push the frontier of human knowledge and enable further progress in mathematics.” TechRadar reported that its actions are being interpreted as reckless, and that the showboating may prove damaging for OpenAI and the wider AI industry.