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Mathematicians conceal research problems over fear that AI will solve them first

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Terence Tao says mathematicians have stopped openly sharing promising research directions because they fear someone could enter their ideas into a frontier AI model and publish results before they finish.

Tao's remarks were reported in a post by Rohan Paul, which quotes a video from the SAIR YouTube channel. The report does not include examples of problems withheld or any data on how widespread the practice is.

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Mathematicians hide research problems fearing AI will solve them first
AITerence 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.

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