I signed this declaration about AI in mathematics, and you might also want to:
https://leidendeclaration.ai/
I had a comment about this passage:
"Technologies which affect the way in which mathematics is practiced may disturb the current system of incentives. The use of artificial intelligence — and thus also the sort of problems which it can address — may become incentivized for its own sake, disrupting our mechanisms for hiring, funding, and recognition."
Our current system of incentives is seriously flawed, so we should be working to improve it, not merely defending the status quo. We don't want AI companies to be twisting the incentives in mathematics - but university administrators and big journal oligopolies have been doing this for decades, and that's no good either.
John Carlos Baez
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