Fields Medalist Reflects on What Mathematicians Lose with AI
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-09-02
Hugo Duminil-Copin, a Fields Medalist, writes from the heart about what mathematicians lose when doing math with AI. While acknowledging AI's spectacular progress and superior performance in many tasks, he questions whether the rapid proliferation of AI-generated proofs is truly needed or welcome in all areas of the discipline. He notes that ChatGPT Pro has already proved a difficult problem in their field and expects their most famous conjecture to fall to AI soon, expressing concern about the changing nature of mathematics.
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