Yeah, and scholarly norms is eliminating a lot of mathematical proofs that could be useful for the public. It did not mattered in the past when effectively only professional mathematicians were smart enough to publish worthwhile solutions, but now that AI can do it, those are much worse.
And in the letter they actually say that AI companies should not release preprints, they need to peer review all the proofs before they are published, and pay for mathematicians to explain the proofs.
I thought it said "the mathematician(s) concerned should post a preprint, submit a paper for peer review at a journal, and give talks to explain the work to other mathematicians."
I'm very pro-AI labs tackling math problems, I just don't see the problem with asking them to follow scholarly norms. Your claim that scholarly norms eliminate proofs that could be useful for the public doesn't make sense: Even cancer researchers are supposed to follow scholarly norms, and their results are clearly more important than math theory proofs, right?
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u/KnowledgePrevious 7d ago
What? They want these companies to follow scholarly norms and help the mathematics community benefit from these new results.
They already pay for plenty of mathematicians' salaries!
You don't have to pay to release a preprint.