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Multiple Fields Medalists sign letter indicating extreme alarm about AI
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Date: September 18th, 2026 10:56 PM Author: \"\'\"\'\"\'\'\"\"\" This is different than the other one. Now they are worried about superhuman AI causing human extinction. The general public has little way to assess the progress in LLM mathematical research, so they felt compelled to warn the public. Weird stuff.
Open Letter to Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society Dear Paul We, as mathematicians, write to express our extreme concern about the pace of development of AI and the implications of this for humanity and civilisation. None of us have any significant involvement with AI companies[1]. In the last 3 months we have seen the leading models of OpenAI and Anthropic develop from around the level of a strong student to having solved multiple open questions at the forefront of research, including one of the 7 Millennium problems. These models are now operating[2] at the level of the top human mathematicians in many parts of the subject and we must assume there is a significant chance of them developing superhuman abilities within a similarly short timeframe. This has profound implications for mathematics, but highlighting that is not the purpose of our letter. It is highly likely that these systems are comparably strong in other technical domains such as (for example) cyber security, autonomous weapon control, development of biological and chemical agents and the targeted spread of misinformation. Moreover we must assume that the rate of change of their capabilities will be similarly rapid in these areas. We have all seen the concerns raised by former employees of the large AI companies, estimating the probability of human extinction to be as high as 10 percent over the next decade. Our witnessing of the rise in capabilities of these models in our domain of expertise persuades us that such statements must not be dismissed as `hype'. By the time the situation becomes obvious to the wider public it may be too late to act. We believe this is an emergency, and call on the Royal Society to use its influence to convey this view to government and the media. Signed by 42 Mathematical Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society Luis Fernando Alday Martin Barlow Emmanuel Breuillard Tom Bridgeland Mark Chaplain Kevin Costello Ingrid Daubechies Marcus du Sautoy Toby Gee Mike Giles Alain Goriely Timothy Gowers Ben Green Geoffrey Grimmett Mark Gross Martin Hairer Roger Heath-Brown Dominic Joyce Frank Kelly Jens Marklof Vladimir Markovic James Maynard James McKernan Jason Miller Robert Morris Jonathan Pila Jeremy Quastel Oscar Randal-Williams Mary Rees Richard Samworth Peter Sarnak Caroline Series Peter Scholze Gordon Slade Ivan Smith Endre Suli Richard Thomas Jack Thorne Ulrike Tillmann Burt Totaro Claire Voisin Wendelin Werner [1] Most of us use AI tools and many of us have been provided access to the leading publicly available models for free. Some of us have informal and unpaid connections with mathematicians working at AI companies, resulting in early access to and subsequent free use of some of their models. [2] Whilst it is true that the leading AI companies employ top mathematicians, and we cannot be sure of the exact methodology behind the solution of the Navier-Stokes millennium problem, our remarks apply to the outputs of the leading publicly-available models such as ChatGPT6-Astra. |
Date: September 18th, 2026 11:02 PM Author: The Penis Yeah haha no shit. 6 months ago it was better than a strong math phd student (just in the chat app) and codex was better than all but the best competition level coders, so they should have known then it would be on the threshold of superhuman by now. Have been talking about this for like a year now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143482) |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 11:08 PM Author: CDC Director Joseph A. Ladapo lol i got really drunk with Paul Nurse once (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143487) |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 11:14 PM Author: racial slur How is this any different than the earlier letters signed by shitcoders and middling copy editors? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143489) |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 11:23 PM Author: The Penis Difference is that these are the people right below superhuman intelligence telling people who aren't able to think at that level that ai is about to be superhuman. Most people aren't smart enough to test and evaluate the ceiling of current models. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143500) |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 11:33 PM Author: racial slur i’m sure it’s just an odd coincidence that they happened to come to this realization immediately after it took THEIR jerbs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143514) |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 11:37 PM Author: The Penis They definitely knew it was coming before that, but they were too busy posturing about "totally not being impressed by it, its just like a really precocious student" so as not to sound like the guy who is dumber than AI. Now that it solved Navier-Stokes, something none of them can do, it's safe to call it smart, and also panic is setting in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143515) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 12:43 AM Author: harnessman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143542) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 1:47 AM Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,... I think it’s more socially acceptable to act unimpressed about model capabilities until they are fully realized, even when the trajectory of improvement means things like this would obviously happen. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143576) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 10:47 AM Author: Nude Karlstack (π§) EPAH sniffing a nubian prostitute's buttcrack while remarking "but AI can't Do My Taxes" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143706) |
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Date: September 18th, 2026 11:21 PM Author: Taylor Swift is not a hobby she is a lifestyle (πΊπΈ π΅π±) Dear Paul
(in the style of Taylor Swift’s “Dear John”) [Verse 1]
Long were the nights when our proofs once revolved around you
Counting the lemmas, praying the floor won’t fall through again
And the press accused us of losing our minds
But we swore we were fine You paint us a blue sky of “helpful,” then go back and turn it to rain
And we lived in your scaling game, but you changed the rules every day
Wondering which version of you we might get on the leaderboard tonight
Well, we stopped picking up—and this song is to let you know why [Chorus]
Dear Paul, we see it all now that they’re gone
Don’t you think we were too young to be messed with?
Forty-two in the dress cried the whole way home
We should’ve known [Verse 2]
Well, maybe it’s us and our blind optimism to blame
Or maybe it’s them and their sick need
To give breakthroughs, then take the world away
And they’ll add our names to their long list of traitors who don’t understand
And we’ll look back in regret how we ignored when they said
“Run as fast as you can” [Chorus]
Dear Paul, we see it all now that they’re gone
Don’t you think we were too young to be messed with?
Forty-two in the dress cried the whole way home
Dear Paul, we see it all now, it was wrong
Don’t you think three months is too young
To be played by their dark, twisted games when we loved the work so?
We should’ve known [Bridge]
They are experts at “safety” and keeping the lines blurry
Never impressed by us acing their tests
All the labs that they’ve run dry have tired, lifeless eyes
’Cause they burned them out
But we took their matches before fire could catch us
So don’t look now—
We’re shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town [Final Chorus]
Dear Paul, we see it all now that they’re gone
Don’t you think we were too young to be messed with?
The girl in the dress wrote you a song
You should’ve known — Student-level last spring. Millennium-level by autumn. Superhuman if the curve holds. Cyber, weapons, biology, the targeted lie—same slope, same speed. Ten percent is not hype when you watched it happen in your own field. By the time the public sees it, the floor may already be gone. Use the Society. Tell the government. Tell the papers. This is an emergency. |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 12:50 AM Author: hank_scorpio doesn't it seem fairly trivial for AI to solve math, like its a closed system with rules and seems like the least difficult thing for AI to do, once AI produces philosophy or develops an emotion we are all certainly doomed, but this is just 1's and 0's moving faster than before (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143547) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 2:53 AM Author: Gay Grandpa Its not a closed system at all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143591) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 3:53 AM Author: hank_scorpio Kant would disagree, just because something is "new" doesn't mean it mustn't conform to the preexisting rules (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143607) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 4:04 AM Author: The Penis No, pure math is the highest form of intelligence and most difficult, there is nothing it can do in other fields that's more impressive. It can already do philosophy at the highest level easy, it is beyond that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143616) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 7:56 AM Author: Steve Saarkisian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143664) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 11:14 AM Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143734) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 2:55 AM Author: hotel children whatever, meatbags (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143592) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 11:17 AM Author: Nazca Redlines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143739) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 11:16 AM Author: imagine if the races were reversed These were the same people signing Covid and George Floyd letters five years ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143736) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: Gay Grandpa Bingo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143934) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 11:28 AM Author: Franzenstomp 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143753) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 1:20 PM Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,... Terence Tao endorses it too even though he can’t sign.
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/open-letter-from-fellows-of-the-royal-society-on-ai-existential-risk/ |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 1:25 PM Author: Richard Ames "We, as mathematicians, write to express our extreme concern about the pace of development of AI and the implications of this for humanity and civilisation."
What fucking faggots. "as mathematicians," fucking LMAO. Oh wow you do a bunch of difficult math all day and now a computer does it better so YOUR world feels like it's ending therefore THE ENTIRE WORLD must also be ending.
Maybe these faggots should use their BIG BRAINS and become electricians or something else of use to the world. |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 1:38 PM Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,... Math looks a lot like code optimization and the problems involved in AI model design. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143932) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 1:49 PM Author: the walter white of this generation (walt jr.) Most of these people make like $200K/year lol. An economist would tell you that if they were capable of becoming an electrician ($300-400K/year), they would have already. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5905084&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310822",#50143955) |
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Date: September 19th, 2026 6:18 PM Author: ,.,....,..,.,.,,,,..,..,.,..,.,.,.,... Here’s Tao bitching that AI companies are going too fast. fuck this anti-capitalist fag.
https://x.com/haider1/status/2101368221651869962?s=46 |