Twenty-Five Fields Medalists, Including Terence Tao, Warn AI Labs' Math Race Is Undermining Research Rigor

Twenty-five Fields Medalists — mathematics' highest honorees, including Terence Tao, Peter Scholze, Maryna Viazovska and Martin Hairer — have signed an open letter warning that artificial-intelligence companies' race to solve famous unsolved problems is undermining how the discipline verifies, attributes and transmits new knowledge. The declaration, titled "A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics", was published on Tao's blog on September 11, 2026, and argues that the incentives now driving AI labs are seriously out of step with the norms of mathematical research.