AI-written proofs should be treated as tools, not co-authors, says mathematician
SoloGen · x · 2026-07-24
The author argues that AI-assisted or AI-generated proofs should be treated like calculators, ENIAC, LAPACK, NumPy, or SciPy: as tools rather than co-authors.
The analogy is that mathematicians once performed manual computations themselves and still published the results as their own work; by the same logic, AI should be credited as an instrument, not an author.
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