Mathematics
Calegari asks mathematicians to change their own institutions after AI
In a guest post on Terence Tao’s blog, Frank Calegari called OpenAI’s release of more than 700 machine-written papers a watershed and argued that mathematicians should reform hiring, publishing and training, which they control.
Source published · In the Weekly Review of 8 November 2026
Filed under Mathematics
Calegari described the papers as badly written, careless about attribution and in some cases wrong. He compared the moment with the classification of finite simple groups and called for work like the revision of that proof by Gorenstein, Lyons and Solomon, together with jobs that reward it.