Abhishek Shankar's Blog · May 25, 2026
Erdős's Conjecture Fell to a Closed AI Loop. That's the Story.
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On May 20, 2026, OpenAI published an eighteen-page PDF containing a proof that disproves a conjecture Paul Erdős posed in 1946. The closed-loop pipeline that produced it — AI-written prompt, AI-generated proof, AI-graded verification, human review only at the end — is the structural story the press coverage is missing.
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