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'Predatory behavior': Elite mathematicians clash over OpenAI's 'solution' to million-dollar math problem

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Deploying 10,000 agents to claim the solution to a Millennium Prize problem

At the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, elite mathematicians clashed over OpenAI's claim that a fleet of 10,000 AI agents solved the Navier-Stokes existence-and-smoothness problem, a central challenge in mathematical physics. The controversy centers both on allegations of predatory behavior—where OpenAI allegedly raced to scoop human researchers and threatened them—and on whether machine-generated proofs advance genuine human understanding or diminish the role of human researchers. For physics and computer science faculty, this highlights a critical inflection point regarding academic ethics, corporate AI power, and the nature of proof in scientific discovery.

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