As AI claims a Millennium Prize problem, researchers ask whether math and engineering research will survive
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-09
On the day of the reported AI resolution of a Clay Institute Millennium Prize problem, French researcher Igor Carron raises a bigger question: will math and engineering research itself survive? He criticizes institutional responses (CNRS) for focusing on peer review being undermined, while the real shock is larger — GitHub has been buckling under AI-generated commits since April. "It's coming for Science."
The core argument: AI's challenge to science isn't about fixing the paper pipeline, but a wholesale restructuring of how research gets done.
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