Po-Shen Loh on Terence Tao's blog: why we still need human mathematicians in the AI era
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-09-20
Mathematician Po-Shen Loh guest-posts on Terence Tao's blog, arguing AI creates "control points" that experts must oversee — and that mathematicians must keep researching to retain the expertise to steer AI. Context: after OpenAI claimed a Navier-Stokes millennium-prize variant, community letters surged — the Leiden Declaration has 4,000+ signatories, Math and AI 7,000+, and an anti-Caltech-Mathathon letter 2,000+. Loh pushes back on economists like Tyler Cowen who say mathematicians should cede control, and concludes no industry will have enough people for the jobs that need doing. Notably, the prose was 100% human-written in vim while the page layout was generated by Claude Code.
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