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Let me get this straight: Mathematics community responds to AI by threatening the participants,…

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 students' future reputations. The bullet opens by noting that the mathematical community has no consensus on how to evaluate AI-generated results or how to deal with AI companies. It then states that taking