Terence Tao: AI solving key open problems could stunt a math field's growth
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-08
Terence Tao offers a concrete example of how AI progress on key open problems could inhibit a mathematical field's future development: the global regularity problem for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (and its Euler counterpart). The worry is that AI skipping past the intermediate theory would leave the field without foundations to grow on.
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