Mathematicians hit back at economists over what AI is really doing to math research
hugobowne · x · 2026-09-13
Remy Levin defends Itai Sher and a group of mathematicians in the AI-in-math discourse, pushing back hard at critics:
- He asks where the problems AI is "solving" came from in the first place, and why economists assume they understand the production process of math better than mathematicians — "you don't even understand the good being produced."
- He rejects the chess analogy: chess is a finite, complete-information game with a defined goal, while math is "us discovering the language of the universe."
- Itai Sher's original post satirized the discourse as a class that skips explanations and just lists everything already known.
Related event: Researchers push back on fears that AI will ruin mathematics(5 posts)→
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