Mathematician Uses AI to Review Papers: 90% of Issues Found Were Real

littmath · x · 2026-08-27

A mathematician ran most of his published work through RefineDotInk to find hidden issues. The punchline: about 90% of the issues surfaced were real, though happily none changed the main message of the papers. This demonstrates that frontier models, appropriately scaffolded, are now quite good at finding errors in informal mathematics.

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