Mathematicians' AI Anxiety Echoes 1950s Structural Chemistry Debate

A viral essay notes that mathematicians' current arguments about AI mirror those made by structural chemists in the 1950s, when X-ray crystallography began solving complex molecular structures at the push of a button.

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