AI mathematician debate turns into a spat over human mathematicians
littmath · x · 2026-07-24
The post replies to a claim that AI will bring about a “great unhobbling” of mathematics and the rise of an AI mathematician. The author says the attitude behind celebrating human mathematicians’ discomfort feels hard to understand, while the quoted tweet argues that advanced AI will end the old mathematical priesthood and that human mathematicians’ discomfort is almost a feature, not a bug.
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