AI-dependent solutions will need more researchers to verify, not fewer
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-09-09
A counterintuitive take: as solutions become AI-dependent, the number of researchers needed to verify increasingly sophisticated and non-obvious results will grow, not shrink. Like Navier-Stokes, hard problems will create more math academics, not fewer.
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