Can AI break encryption? OpenAI’s new math has cryptographers divided
OpenAI’s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community—and cryptographers are split over whether the algorithms that protect our texts and bank log-ins are next
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Last week OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, dropped 722 mathematical manuscripts online in one go, every one of them penned by an artificial intelligence model unavailable to the public. The output was far from perfect: OpenAI withdrew three of the papers within a day, and mathematicians are still poring over the rest. But the scale of the research, and the incisiveness of its insights, has some worried.
Math powers cryptography. Every text you send and every bank log-in you submit is protected by a math problem that’s supposedly impossible to crack . The system rests on the assumption that…
