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Quoting Terence Tao

Simon Willison · Sep 09, 2026 · Industry Trends

Open problems in research may become scarce due to AI incentives.

“the incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the broader community.”

Terence Tao warns of a trend where competition spurred by AI may discourage sharing research problems. This could have detrimental effects on open science and the advancement of mathematics, raising concerns about collaboration in the academic community.

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