Is a Math PhD Perilous Because of AI? "It Was Perilous Before Too"
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-09-17
Responding to claims that AI makes a math PhD perilous, andrewncarr quips that it was perilous long before AI. The one-liner captures academia's fatigue with AI-disruption narratives.
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