OpenAI's recent disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture marked a milestone for AI in mathematics. It also inspired another breakthrough: a human disproof of the Erdős–Szemerédi sum-product conjecture over R. In this paper, we present a simple agent built on GPT-5. 5 Pro. Using a problem-agnostic, three-stage prompting pipeline—proof-plan proposal, proof construction, and review—the agent autonomously generated correct proofs that the sum-product conjecture is false over R in 7 of 8 independent trials; in the remaining trial, it identified an unresolved gap in its argument. The seven proofs are diverse: some are close to existing unit-based constructions, while others avoid units by using Lᵖ-type regions of algebraic integers. The system used an average of 132. 4k reasoning tokens per trial. We release the code, intermediate outputs, and generated proofs, providing a reproducible, data-contamination-free case study in autonomous proof generation.
Yichen Huang (Fri,) studied this question.