Terence Tao warns that the race to AGI is becoming toxic, and OpenAI’s massive paper dump wiped out junior research projects overnight. Some parts of his most recent interview: “They were willing to toss understanding to the side so that they could prove more theorems, get more press releases [...] and test their latest toys. These AIs are depleting our pool of questions and not replenishing them with anything new. only looked at about 10 of the 300 odd papers. I mean, so this is part of the thing. There's just so many to look at. [...] There's a whole bunch which are still incomprehensible. And no one's really gone through them, and one or two even have some errors and [were] retracted. So we don't have a clear picture of what's going on. And no one from OpenAI is helping us. As far as they're concerned, they're done. [...] We have this pile of stuff to go through which we didn't ask for, but we have it anyway. And there will be some good stuff in there and some rubbish, but we don't know what the percentages are yet.”