OpenAI and Anthropic disprove 27-year-old computer science hypothesis

Peter Jonsson, a professor at Linköping University, called much of his own work ‘dead’ after the hypothesis’s collapse, though he noted the discovery still advances scientific understanding. UC Santa Barbara and MIT researchers involved in the original hypothesis and its prior refutations have been consulted. The field remains cautious: independent verification is pending, and experts like Daniel Lokshtanov and Thore Husfeldt warn that roughly 50 of their papers could become obsolete or require urgent updates. Jonsson’s own presentation at the upcoming IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science may face immediate backlash from peers.