Fields Awards

ON SEPTEMBER 13, IN A JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED YESTERDAY BY THE 25 PHILTZ WINNERS OF THE PHYLLIS AWARD, TAO CHEOL-CHULZ, PETER SCHULZ, HUGO DIMINICOPAN, MARINA VYAZOVSKA AND OTHERS, AND LED BY TAO CHEOL-CHUL IN A JOINT PUBLICATION OF THE SERIOUS MISALIGNMENT OF AI IN THE FIELD OF MATHEMATICS, WARNS AI OF THE POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING IMPACT OF USING THE PROBLEM OF CRITICAL MATHEMATICS AS A BENCHMARK FOR MODEL CAPABILITIES. ACCORDING TO THE STATEMENT, LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS HAVE MADE RAPID PROGRESS IN RECENT TIMES IN ADDRESSING A NUMBER OF MATHEMATICAL OPENNESS ISSUES, BUT THERE IS A DISCONNECT BETWEEN AI'S OBJECTIVES AND THE CORE CLAIMS OF THE MATHEMATICS COMMUNITY..

On July 25th, a 38-year-old Canadian mathematician, Jacob Tsimmerman, after receiving the 2026 Fields Award, announced that he was moving to AI security research and would join OpenAI ' s security services. He was also compiling a list of resources for the transfer of mathematicians, with a view to attracting more researchers into the field. Tsimmerman introduces o-minimality tools in mathematical logic into arithmetic geometry and composite algebra geometry with Benjamin Bakker, Yohan Bru..