Mathematics has changed. Let’s act like it

[This is a guest post by Frank Calegari. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Why we should not be sad The release by OpenAI on October 6 of over 700 research papers was a watershed in the history of mathematics. AI is now undeniably capable of making groundbreaking contributions across many areas of mathematics. So why are some mathematicians so unhappy? Some of it is the apparent disregard by AI companies for the practice of mathematics. The OpenAI papers — despite some tremendous ideas — are atrociously written and violate our community expectations of attribution. Some of them are even wrong. We have much more control over how we hire mathematicians, publish papers, and train students than over the behavior of trillion-dollar companies, and that is where our efforts would be better spent. Much of the reaction seems to reflect a feeling that the subject that they love is under attack, and is being “hollowed out”. The recent…