ai-ethics
Pope Leo renews an artists’ alliance as Anthropic’s moral-status outreach draws scrutiny News
Pope Leo XIV called for an alliance to safeguard human creativity, while Anthropic’s published research continues to treat AI consciousness as unresolved.
Twenty-five Fields Medallists say AI companies and mathematics are 'severely misaligned' News
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners, including Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, signed a declaration on 11 September 2026 saying the AI industry's race to solve famous problems is harming mathematics, a day after OpenAI withdrew its sponsorship of a Caltech AI math hackathon following a separate open letter from mathematicians.
OpenAI says it cannot rule out that user chats improved the model behind its proof News
In its 8 September write-up of the Navier-Stokes result, OpenAI stated that while no specific user data was accessed to solve the problem, it 'cannot rule out' that de-identified data from two mathematicians' use of its products helped improve its models - a sentence that has shifted the dispute from mathematical credit to data consent.