Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Solving Math's Best Problems Faster Than They Can Be Replaced, Terence Tao Warns

Terence Tao, the UCLA mathematician and 2006 Fields Medal recipient, warned that powerful AI systems are exhausting the supply of meaningful open problems in mathematics faster than researchers can generate or evaluate new ones. He pointed to recent competitive results from OpenAI and Anthropic — including a May solution to the Erdős unit-distance conjecture — as evidence that models can quickly flatten hard problems once effort is focused on them.