Economist Scott Kominers: you can't claim AI makes math both inaccessible and mathematicians obsolete
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-12
Scott Kominers points out a contradiction in current AI-math discourse: it's incoherent to argue simultaneously that AI tooling will make math completely inaccessible and that it will make it so accessible mathematicians have no role left. A crisp logical pushback against the 'math is over' narrative.
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