OpenAI's 372 Math Solutions Spark Urgent Cryptography Debate Among Security Experts

OpenAI has released solutions to more than 300 open mathematical problems, generated by an unreleased internal AI model, sparking concerns among leading cryptographers about potential vulnerabilities in encryption systems protecting online payments, messaging, and cryptocurrencies. The company published 722 papers addressing 372 mathematical problems spanning algebra, geometry, and theoretical computer science, with approximately 300 of the results formally verified using the Lean proof assistant. Some submissions claimed progress on prestigious long-standing problems, including Millennium Prize Problems like the Riemann hypothesis and Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.