OpenAI recently announced perhaps its biggest mathematics breakthrough yet: it released novel results on 377 high-profile open problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) casually solved these decades-old problems as a mere by-product of training.
The community of mathematicians did not universally welcome this development, with University of Connecticut professor Alvaro Lozano-Robledo commenting: “I am not sure at this point what this (hostile?) takeover of the mathematical landscape is trying to achieve”.
Where is the global development of AI headed? According to Jacob Coxon – the researcher who recently resigned from AI research firm Anthropic – and other leading voices in AI, there might be an up to 50 per cent chance of humanity being ended by superintelligent AI. How would that happen?
