Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman joins OpenAI to study AI safety

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AI and crypto news broke as Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman joins OpenAI to focus on AI safety. He co-authored a 2025 paper warning of AI risks, including near-human extinction. Tsimerman has paused accepting new PhD students, predicting AI could outpace mathematicians within two years. His former student recently used AI to disprove a major mathematical conjecture. New token listings on major exchanges continue to draw attention alongside AI developments.
ME AI News, according to monitoring by Beating, newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman has announced his shift to AI safety and will join OpenAI. Several research leads at OpenAI have publicly welcomed his arrival. His concerns about AI are not impulsive; in 2025, he co-authored a paper with Andrew Critch that systematically mapped potential pathways by which AI could lead to the near-extinction of humanity. The paper did not assert that extinction is inevitable, but aimed to spur preventive action. He has also stopped accepting new PhD students in mathematics, believing AI could surpass mathematicians in doing math within two years—he does not want to prepare students for a profession that may soon disappear. Interestingly, one of his former undergraduate mentees at Harvard, Levent Alpöge, has joined Anthropic. Alpöge recently used Claude Fable 5 to find a counterexample, overturning the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture. The teacher is now at OpenAI researching how to control AI, while the student is at Anthropic using AI to overturn mathematical conjectures. The future Tsimerman fears is already unfolding around him. (Source: BlockBeats)
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