Deep learning author Scardapane: AI is eroding a generation of mathematicians' confidence
s_scardapane · x · 2026-09-09
Samuel Scardapane, professor at Sapienza and co-author of the Deep Learning book, warns that we may be 'destroying the confidence of generations of mathematicians, partly for financial gain'—and that we'll regret this more than overscaling test-time compute.
It's a notable ethical critique of AI's rapid entry into mathematical research, pointing to the hidden human cost of eroding expert confidence and motivation.
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