Sandberg: useful math is fine with AI; math for beauty will survive like chess
anderssandberg · x · 2026-09-13
Anders Sandberg argues that plenty of math is done because it is useful, so AI poses no problem there, and math done for fun or beauty will persist largely unaffected by AI, just as AI never stopped people from playing chess.
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