Wei Dai: Mathematicians Resisting AI Are Defending Status Games — But What Else Can They Do?
nitarshan · x · 2026-09-12
Wei Dai (NVIDIA research scientist, BitTorrent creator) commented on the backlash against AI within the mathematics community.
He argues mathematicians are largely defending their status games without acknowledging it — but expresses sympathy for their plight: until humanity finds a better mechanism for handling the disruption AI causes to human status games, they have little else they can do.
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