This problem is older than AI. The problem is that recognition is given to the last mathematician in the chain, even when some intermediate people may have made key contributions.
For example, Millennium Prizes were offered to the last person. This encouraged people who know or believe they have an important piece of information to keep it secret, even if they can never get anything else out of it, and that hinders mathematical progress.
Instead, if recognition and rewards were shared along the chain, more people would be incentivized to share their ideas and contributions, even unfinished ones.
An interesting problem is how to distribute the reward. What's the value of a given contribution? But that's the kind of problem that mathematicians are good at solving, and this may stimulate the development of mathematical theories about the value of contributions, which may themselves orient mathematical investigation in general by indicating where further investigation should take place.
This problem is older than AI. The problem is that recognition is given to the last mathematician in the chain, even when some intermediate people may have made key contributions.
For example, Millennium Prizes were offered to the last person. This encouraged people who know or believe they have an important piece of information to keep it secret, even if they can never get anything else out of it, and that hinders mathematical progress.
Instead, if recognition and rewards were shared along the chain, more people would be incentivized to share their ideas and contributions, even unfinished ones.
An interesting problem is how to distribute the reward. What's the value of a given contribution? But that's the kind of problem that mathematicians are good at solving, and this may stimulate the development of mathematical theories about the value of contributions, which may themselves orient mathematical investigation in general by indicating where further investigation should take place.