AI has made the race to publish mathematical breakthroughs pointless, according to the Australian at the centre of an controversy this week involving one of the world's top AI companies.
Professor Buckmaster said some mathematicians had stopped publicly sharing what they were working on to avoid tipping off AI companies about their plans.
He has called on academics and people from OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind to discuss ground rules for how they worked together.
He said the companies’ power carried responsibilities that went beyond competing to solve problems before their rivals.
These big AI companies act like all other capitalist corporations. They’re raiders and unless their founders, funders and operatives are reined in we are going to go straight into lawless techno barbarism, even worse than the decadent system we have now. Jacob Coxon is the latest to give us a warning: https://www.nine.com.au/world-news/artificial-intelligence-news-ai-employee-jacob-coxon-quits-over-safety-concerns-20260910-p60vzv.html