Would AI proofs for 3 millennium problems discourage humans from the rest? Debaters spar
sytelus · x · 2026-09-11
A viral take argues AI-generated proofs could harm math: if AI solved just 3 of the 7 Millennium Prize Problems, people might assume the remaining ones are out of reach and stop working on them.
The poster pushes back with a reductio ad absurdum: by that logic, solving any open problem discourages others, so we'd have to ban open-problem research except by licensed mathematicians — mocking the argument that AI proofs hurt mathematical progress.
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