Cambridge Statistics Professor: AI Has Driven a Dagger Through Our Scientific Profession
dianarycai · x · 2026-09-06
A retweet highlighting Po-Ling Loh's guest column in the IMS Bulletin, "AI, From Competition to Collaboration."
Loh, professor at Cambridge's Statistical Laboratory, opens with "AI has driven a dagger through our scientific profession": three months ago the field still debated whether ChatGPT could solve research-level math, but frontier LLMs now make substantial progress on theoretical problems across all areas of mathematics weekly. She invites skeptics to test a GPT Pro account with a question they're sure AI can't answer. The column examines AI's urgent threat to mathematical statistics and proposes a path from competition to collaboration.
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