What math will resist AI the longest?
doodlestein · x · 2026-07-21
The post asks a broader question: if AI has already disproved a long-standing conjecture, what other areas of mathematics might still resist AI-driven discovery?
The attached discussion argues that the deeper lesson is not just that AI can break into some hard problems, but that different math domains may have very different resistance profiles. It suggests looking for areas where search spaces are less checkable, confidence is weaker, and the bottleneck is not proof length but the slow discovery of genuinely new concepts. The author then points to analytic number theory and related fields as likely to resist AI longer than more formalizable areas.
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