Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era

	Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era(simonsfoundation.org)
	240 points by aaraujo002 20 hours ago \| 194 comments
	tl;dr: The Simons Foundation, Anthropic, and OpenAI are jointly committing $15 million to help mathematicians adapt to AI, with the foundation managing grants via open proposals for workshops and initiatives around evaluating AI-assisted results, tool adoption, and shared standards. Anthropic and OpenAI will also provide AI tools and compute to Simons-supported researchers across math and basic science. The effort builds on the foundation's prior backing of projects like the Lean proof assistant.
	HN Discussion: ↓Funding will go to already well-funded elite mathematicians, not early-career researchers ↓The partnership is PR whitewashing for AI labs that exploited mathematical research ↓Mathematicians don't need special coddling; AI is just a tool to learn like any other ~Concerns that AI-assisted proofs will erode mathematicians' skills and create unmaintainable work ~A more ambitious CERN-like institute for mathematics would be preferable to this effort