Mathematician pushes back on Tao-style AI critique: knowledge is infrastructure, not just answers
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-13
gil2almeida argues a viral framing misreads the point: it's not mathematics versus humanity.
- The Millennium problems were chosen to stimulate mathematical development, not as seven urgent missing answers; fostering mathematics is itself how knowledge advances.
- A cancer analogy splits AI's value in two: if AI discovers a pill that kills cancer, take it, process be damned. But if AI makes doctors 10x faster — diagnosing, deciding treatment, communicating, monitoring, with doctors only approving — how do we know patients are healthier? How do we trust the diagnosis?
- That's the real point: knowledge is part of the infrastructure that produces the medicine, not just the output.
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