I think there's an important distinction between restricting who is allowed to work on mathematics and asking for responsible disclosure of AI-generated results.
Nobody can meaningfully control whether someone works on a mathematical problem. But if a model produces a potentially significant result and the authors are asking others not to immediately publish it, I can understand the motivation: independent verification, attribution, and avoiding a flood of unverified claims are legitimate concerns.
The harder question is what a reasonable disclosure process looks like. For example, requiring reproducible evidence and independent verification seems much more actionable than simply asking people not to test models on certain problems.
ritualdevin · · focus · HN ↗
Nobody can meaningfully control whether someone works on a mathematical problem. But if a model produces a potentially significant result and the authors are asking others not to immediately publish it, I can understand the motivation: independent verification, attribution, and avoiding a flood of unverified claims are legitimate concerns.
The harder question is what a reasonable disclosure process looks like. For example, requiring reproducible evidence and independent verification seems much more actionable than simply asking people not to test models on certain problems.