Will AI solve math too fast?

OpenAI claims an internal AI system has produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems. Mathematician Terence Tao has raised a critical concern: AI-generated proofs may reach correct answers while bypassing the intermediate insights and reasoning steps that drive broader scientific progress. The debate centers on whether speed of solution is the right optimization target when the process of mathematical discovery produces transferable knowledge. For enterprise AI strategy, the article surfaces a broader governance question about whether AI systems optimized for outputs over reasoning transparency create blind spots in high-stakes decision-making.