Opinion: Terence Tao owes no stance on AI deployment — mathematicians should do their art
akbirthko · x · 2026-09-21
The author argues that Terence Tao and pure mathematicians in general shouldn't be dragged into AI discourse: Tao isn't making a universal 'stop AI' statement, and whether AI gets deployed to cure cancer is irrelevant to math — they should just keep doing their 'art projects'.
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