Lean AI proofs to ZFC: researcher says translation is feasible, with caveats
jessi_cata · x · 2026-09-11
jessicata raises a concrete, testable question: to what degree do typical Lean AI results translate to ZFC, and how feasibly.
- Potential issues include Lean soundness bugs and Lean proofs possibly relying on strong axioms in practice.
- The author guesses Lean-to-ZFC translation mostly works: with a lab team on it, translating existing artifacts (e.g. the Navier-Stokes formalization) would likely not be very hard, resembling translation between programming languages.
- A discussion of reliability and generality of AI-produced formal proofs.
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