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title: "Fields Medalist launches institute to mathematically prove AI safety"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/fields-medalist-launches-institute-to-mathematically-prove-ai-safety-aae3c5
source_name: "The Decoder"
source_url: https://the-decoder.com/the-mathematical-ai-safety-institute-wants-to-prove-ai-is-safe-the-way-cryptographers-prove-codes-are-unbreakable/
published: 2026-09-11T09:15:10.000Z
topics: ["security", "research"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Fields Medalist launches institute to mathematically prove AI safety

*2026-09-11 · Source: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/the-mathematical-ai-safety-institute-wants-to-prove-ai-is-safe-the-way-cryptographers-prove-codes-are-unbreakable/)*

Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman, a recent Fields Medal recipient, has founded the Mathematical AI Safety Institute (MAISI). The institute aims to develop formal, provable guarantees of AI safety analogous to cryptographic security proofs.

**Why it matters:** This is a bet that empirical red-teaming and RLHF-style alignment won't scale to guarantee safety in more capable systems, and that formal verification methods borrowed from cryptography might do better. It adds a rigorous, academically credentialed voice to a safety debate that has recently included resignations and warnings from inside labs like Anthropic and OpenAI.

**Topics:** security, research

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