Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

In a blog post, OpenAI said the group "will serve as a bridge to the mathematical community and broader public, giving mathematicians a voice in how we move forward."[2]OpenAI's post also said that its new internal model "has now resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems across most areas of mathematics."[2] The explainx.ai blog said that this figure is OpenAI's own report and has not been independently checked.[3]TechCrunch reports that 25 Fields Medal-winning mathematicians had signed an open letter earlier that month, arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work[1].According to TechCrunch, members won't be paid, but they can give advice nobody asked for, speak publicly and decide their own membership[1]. TechCrunch also reports that the group won't be able to slow down or change the direction of OpenAI's ongoing math research.[1]The group's website lists nine members, among them Timothy Gowers, Martin Hairer, Edward Witten and Melanie Matchett Wood[4].TechCrunch later reported that OpenAI's October release followed some of the group's guidelines, but "just 10 of the 719 manuscripts included releases of the model's chain of thought."[5] TechCrunch also said that the group's first request was "to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models."[5]In a statement, the group said its role "should not be interpreted as a judgment of the impact of these results or an endorsement"[4] of how OpenAI got them.