I was watching a talk by Terence Tao a couple of days ago, and I noticed a shift in his attitude towards AI. His enthusiasm seemed to have waned; he was becomin

I was watching a talk by Terence Tao a couple of days ago, and I noticed a shift in his attitude towards AI. His enthusiasm seemed to have waned; he was becoming more dismissive of it, and I was wondering why. “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics,” with a list of important mathematicians. This post makes it clear that, to put it bluntly, they’re psychologically butt-hurt. They talk about misalignment, but this revolution is a massive step forward in the advancement of mathematics. Everyone has access; everyone can collaborate. Yes, “plagiarism and attribution” are current-day problems for them. But guess what? Those were stupid things to concern oneself with anyway if your real goal is to advance mathematics and the spreading of it. This whole post kind of reads like their egos being butt-hurt. There are tons of developers who published open-source code that made all of this possible without any attribution. And that is indeed the future we must inevitably head towards, if one’s ego would allow it, that is, and if one is properly “aligned” with the right goals. I envision us all collectively talking to a centralized and open AI. This would really ignite human sharing and collaboration. It is indeed problematic that currently it’s in the hands of some companies, while it should be a public good. I hope this progression will eventually, finally, trigger the real solution to all of our problems: true global cooperation, global politics, and genuine collaboration as a human species. But I hold my heart, because if even these mathematicians have misaligned egos, then what’s to be expected of the rest of the decision-makers?