Re: Sharing AI progress in mathematics

> Several hours of work with Fable simply convinced me it wasn't yet solvable and reinforced how hard of a problem it was.

This is the part that gives me the strangest feeling about it all, because you're not the only one with this experience. I've experienced this too on different problems, as have many researchers across many fields.

I disagree with the Fields Medalists on the majority of their complaints. AI math is happening and there's no going back. However, on one point I increasingly agree: virtually none of this stuff is possible with technology any normal citizen has access to. I have no problem with AI models making revolutionary advances in math or science. Where I start to have a problem is when the AI models making these advances are tightly withheld, proprietary, and seemingly never released with these capabilities intact. This has been the case for all of 2026 so far.

I suspect that this is in fact the source of much of the angst. None of this progress is reproducible outside of one or two teams inside OpenAI and Anthropic. It's becoming an incredible concentration of power that I don't know that we've ever quite seen before. Right now, it feels harmless because it's being used for wonky math problems that aren't (yet) practical for anything. But great power never stays harmless. History has taught us that countless times, in countless different forms.

nilkn, 6 hours ago