Math's Elite Challenge AI Pace: 25 Fields Medallists Demand Slowdown After Navier-Stokes Breakthrough

Twenty-five winners of mathematics' highest honor have signed an open declaration demanding that artificial intelligence development slow dramatically, arguing that the current pace of AI breakthroughs is harming the discipline itself. Led by Terence Tao, widely considered one of the world's greatest living mathematicians, the group released "A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics" on September 11, 2026, just three days after OpenAI announced that an internal AI system had solved the Navier-Stokes equations—one of mathematics' most celebrated unsolved problems and a seven-figure Millennium Prize challenge.