Terence Tao calls to slow down AI math as Fields medalists pivot from skepticism to fear
MountainOfMoon · x · 2026-09-21
After OpenAI's claimed solution to the Navier-Stokes millennium problem, math's biggest names are rattled: Cédric Villani describes "an atmosphere of the end of history," James Maynard went from AI skeptic to frightened, and Terence Tao calls for slowing down AI for Math — "the pace is insane." Blogger Arya Mazumdar argues that while the great trees fall first, mathematicians who love math for its own sake may weather the storm better — and asks elites not to lurch from denial to doomsday cultism in days.
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