I think this topic deserves some empathy.

It is not about AI the technology, plenty of mathematicians are happy to use AI, it is about the AI companies. The tech only exists because of centuries of mathematical tradition in open science. Moreover, the livelihoods of mathematicians depend on research results and ideas which can be developed only by doing the hard work of exploring open problems.

The recent statement from mathematicians is about how the labs have spent tens of millions of dollars (resources even entire math groups at universities can only dream of) on what was essentially marketing bragging rights for their models. This directly harms the math community by depriving them of opportunities for both funding and fertile ground for new ideas, while at the same time being built on top of their entire body of work.

Now, have OpenAI decided to change their practices and stop publishing math just because they are disrupting an entire field? Not really, since this release still dumps a huge number of results to open problems without waiting for human understanding to catch up. But at least they have committed to funding programs and talking to members of the field to work out how to best evolve it in this new world. And we will still get the benefits of results that happen to have applications.