AI still helps the best-informed users most, author says in new paper thread
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-07-21
The author says the biggest near-term beneficiaries of AI are people who already have strong knowledge and taste.
- Those users know what is worth doing.
- They also know how to check outputs, verify results, and build on them.
- The post is tied to a new paper with Josh and uses a quoted argument about how there are not enough human mathematicians to query AI and interpret the results well.
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