OpenAI announced, on Monday, the formation of a new independent advisory group hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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The group carries the name "Mathematics and AI Advisory Group," and aims to give mathematicians a greater role in the research the company conducts in the mathematical field.
OpenAI said in its post: "This group will serve as a bridge connecting us to the mathematics community and the broader public, giving mathematicians a voice in how we move forward."
The announcement comes after the surprise publication of a solution to the Millennium Prize problem related to the Navier-Stokes equations.
As part of announcing the new group, OpenAI also said its own internal model had managed to solve more than 100 additional open problems across most branches of mathematics.
The rapid pace at which these results were published sparked objections from a number of prominent mathematicians.
Earlier in September, 25 Fields Medal-winning scientists signed an open letter, warning that AI labs could threaten the nature of their intellectual work, given these companies' pursuit of outdoing one another by solving famous mathematical problems.
As its name suggests, OpenAI's new group will primarily serve an advisory role, working to assess the significance of new results and coordinate on the timing and manner of their publication.
Group members won't receive financial compensation but will be able to offer advice on their own initiative, express their opinions publicly, and control the group's membership, giving them a degree of independence from the company.
Still, the group won't have the authority to slow the pace of ongoing mathematical research within OpenAI or change its direction.
The company said in its post that "the group will not be responsible for advising us on the pace at which we proceed internally in mathematics research."
The Institute for Advanced Study also stressed this point in its own announcement.
The institute said in a press statement: "While we will provide advice, we do not have decision-making authority at any company working in AI, and responsibility for the decisions any company makes will remain with that company."
Nine prominent mathematicians were selected to be the group's founding members.
Notably, only one of these members, Camillo De Lellis of the Institute for Advanced Study, was among the signatories of the open letter signed by Fields Medal winners.
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