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Let me get this straight: Mathematics community responds to AI by threatening the participants, most of them are just students?

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On September 10, mathematicians published an open letter demanding the cancellation of the Caltech Mathathon, a student-run hackathon where 100 teams would use frontier LLMs on open problems, backed by $2M in credits from Anthropic and OpenAI. One clause warns that participation could damage studen…

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  1. 2026-09-11 01:43 · r/singularity
    Let me get this straight: Mathematics community responds to AI by threatening the participants, most of them are just students?

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