# Mathematicians hide research problems fearing AI will solve them first

> Original title: Mathematicians are now hiding their research ideas out of fear of AI 😀

- Source: Rohan Paul
- Published: 2026-11-03T13:46:55.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/q317q76p86lo82y4whvv6un4m
- Original: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2117614500753076571

## Summary

Terence Tao says mathematicians have stopped openly sharing promising research directions. They fear someone could enter their ideas into a frontier AI model and publish results before they finish. The source is a post by Rohan Paul quoting Tao from a video on the SAIR YouTube channel.

## Post

Mathematicians are now hiding their research ideas out of fear of AI 😀

~ Terence Tao

"now, mathematicians are hiding their problems. they used to share very openly all their promising research directions and now they're afraid that if you do that, someone with an AI will input their research ideas into a frontier model and rush out some people before they can finish their work."

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Full video on "SAIR" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

[Video](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Famplify_video_thumb%2F2117610548082925568%2Fimg%2F_GBA7vEquoUXyy1M.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1793923200&sig=c598d0b2607a6f28)