AI Speed Debate: Critics Slam Calls to Slow AI Math Progress to Protect Mathematicians' Egos
RachelVT42 · x · 2026-09-20
A spat over AI's role in mathematics: one scientist argued slowing AI so Terence Tao can still 'feel important' is the wrong priority when millions of lives are at stake, while repliers dismissed such caution as 'stages of grief,' insisting AI-accelerated discovery shouldn't wait.
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