Math for AI safety: an invitation for mathematicians
Lionel Levine
Abstract
Artificial intelligence threatens to outrun human understanding and control. New mathematics is needed to design AI that is legible, steerable, and cooperative with humanity. I organize this invitation by mathematical field, so you can turn straight to your own: logic and game theory for cooperation; probability for agency and world-models; algebra and representation theory for learned features; analysis and geometry for generalization and training dynamics. Each section ends with an open problem that is accessible to a working mathematician with no prior experience in AI safety.