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Maintaining the existing standards is in fact a form of protection from AI disruption. They are asking the AI companies to follow their norms, instead of them having to conform to new norms created by AI. They don’t want to have to change the way they do things, understandably!, and are asking the companies to accommodate their way of life.

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New norms are only worth adopting if they are clearly better, and that is far from obvious for whatever norms the proprietary AI companies are trying to push. Also their letter specifically targets proprietary AI companies, not computational tools in general which mathematicians do use when they advance mathematical understanding.

Better for who? If I don’t care about the welfare of mathematicians and just the advancement of mathematics, would AI doing the math not be better for me?

As well, if the open models were as good as the proprietary ones, do you think they wouldn’t still have complaints?

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