Adam Dorr says Terence Tao's anti-AI-in-math stance boils down to ego, not reason
adam_dorr · x · 2026-09-12
Adam Dorr pushes back on Terence Tao's pessimistic declaration about AI solving hard math problems, calling it hard to read as anything but sour grapes. He concedes Tao's point that open problems inspire exploring the wider intellectual landscape, but argues first-discovery glory was always a privilege of a rare few — for everyone else AI is humbling progress, and "the bigger they are, the harder they fall."
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