Minqi Jiang: AI won't replace mathematicians, it's a new kind of telescope
MinqiJiang · x · 2026-09-10
Minqi Jiang argues AI won't replace mathematicians despite rapid progress in AI for math. Instead, AI brings math closer to natural science: an AI answer is effectively an empirical observation from a system outside human theoretical understanding—often too complex to yield deep insight beyond establishing the result. The human role becomes distilling these findings into legible explanations; human math may increasingly resemble interpretability, with AI as a new kind of telescope.
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