# Mathematicians question how OpenAI shared its claimed proofs with physicists

> Original title: Mathematicians question the “shepherding” approach (giving the results to a small group of physicists to deal with)

- Source: Miles Brundage
- Published: 2026-10-28T04:37:55.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/sd6pap6l9dgb95nz8lefvv8r5
- Original: https://x.com/Miles_Brundage/status/2115302016461488553

## Summary

Miles Brundage reposts a quote from mathematician W. T. Gowers criticizing the handling of OpenAI's recent drop. The quoted post says the drop includes a refutation of ETH, a proof of local smoothing implying the full Kakeya conjecture, and a proof of the existence of pure Yang-Mills theory. AGMAI asks for immediate release of the materials connected to the Yang-Mills result.

## Post

Mathematicians question the “shepherding” approach (giving the results to a small group of physicists to deal with)

## Quoted post @wtgowers

> The recent drop by OpenAI contains a refutation of ETH, a proof of "local smoothing", which implies the full Kakeya conjecture, and a proof of the existence of pure Yang-Mills theory. AGMAI asks for release of the materials connected with the last.
> 
> https://agmai.org/#request-immediate-release

https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2115008335154176006