Fields Medalist Terence Tao, who chairs the group, shared the statement as a guest post on his blog, while also outlining a "Math 2.0" era on Mastodon in which solving problems should no longer be the main focus of the discipline. Complexity theorist Scott Aaronson described the situation as a "Mathocalypse" on his blog.

The AHM statement escalates a months-long debate. OpenAI had already caused a stir by claiming an internal model solved more than 100 open math problems in a single month, including an approach to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem. In response to growing criticism, OpenAI set up the advisory group AGMAI at the Institute for Advanced Study, though the group explicitly has no say over the pace of the company's internal research.

AHM sees the release as a show of force

The AHM says OpenAI has already ignored the central premise of AGMAI's advice, which held that advanced math problems shouldn't be tested on internal models. "Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done," the statement reads, describing the release of more than 700 files at once as "not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power."