AI editing a math paper spots a counterexample to a proposition the author planned to cite
jessi_cata · x · 2026-09-06
The author asked the AI assistant Astra to help edit her math paper draft, and it found a counterexample to a proposition in the existing literature — one she was planning to cite. She has now emailed the original author. "A sign of the times," she notes: AI is already catching potential errors in real mathematical research workflows.
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