Timothy Gowers

Math Is Won. OpenAI Just Bought the Cemetery.

OpenAI just formed an advisory group for mathematics and AIβ€”right after their models allegedly solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. This isn’t governance. It’s a theatrical burial ground. When the last pure human intellectual endeavor falls to machines, the corporate response is a committee, not a reckoning.

AI Isn’t Solving Math Problems. It’s Strip-Mining Human Culture.

Timothy Gowers, one of the world’s greatest mathematicians, refused to sign a letter about AI. His reason exposes a terrifying truth: AI companies aren’t just generating answers, they are strip-mining a shared human commons. If we only reward the final output, we destroy the culture of understanding.