Terence Tao: elite experts across fields will demand a slowdown once AI takes their prestige work
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-21
At his keynote at the Science x AI Summit at Caltech, Terence Tao said: "We have to slow down. This is insane, the pace and there's no reason to be this fast. There's no reason at all."
His prediction: this will become a common statement from elite specialists in almost every intellectual field once AI starts doing the field's prestige work — top experts welcome AI as a tool, then ask it to slow down the moment it produces results they used to own. Full video from the SAIR YouTube channel.
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