Twenty-five Fields Medalists, including Princeton University Professor June Huh, have released a joint letter warning against the race by artificial intelligence companies to solve difficult mathematical challenges.

The laureates warned that "problem-solving is merely a tool to gain insight" and cautioned that AI competition could harm the mathematical community and intellectual activity as a whole.

This letter came immediately after OpenAI announced that it had deployed thousands of AI agents to solve the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a notorious mathematical challenge.