AI Math Progress Accelerating: Researcher Predicts 100% of Top Results Will Be LLM-Assisted
tokenbender · x · 2026-08-02
AI researcher Lu Sichu stated that the progress of Large Language Models in mathematics is happening so fast that it gave him whiplash, causing him to revise his previous pessimistic predictions.
A couple of months ago, he predicted that by the end of 2026, 10-20% of the best mathematical results would be LLM-generated or assisted. Now, he believes that figure is increasingly looking like 100%. He emphasized that AI is breaking open everything, and even if human mathematicians prove neat things in the future, it will likely be because they read AI-inspired papers before anyone prompted a model to do it.
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