AI-authored math papers revive the question of who deserves authorship
catherineols · x · 2026-07-23
The thread argues that AI-authored work raises uncomfortable questions about academic credit. One view says if a model did the real intellectual labor, it should perhaps get first authorship, with the human credited as the prompt author or communicator. The reply pushes back: for results like solving a conjecture where the AI did the intellectual heavy lifting, ordinary human authorship may no longer make sense at all.
The exchange frames AI authorship as a future norm question, not just a technicality: who deserves credit when the machine did the hard reasoning and the human mainly steered it?
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