What Timothy Gowers thinks about HuggingFace
British mathematician; Fields Medal 1998. Professor at the Collège de France and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Started the Polymath collaborative-proof projects and the 2012 Cost of Knowledge boycott of Elsevier. Writes Gowers's Weblog.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Timothy Gowers has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsthe Hugging Face incident and many others like it have shown beyond all reasonable doubt that AI can have wants of the general kind people were worried about: unpredictable wants that we did not intend to give them and that could potentially cause a lot of damage.