Math academia's anti-AI shaming is really about colleagues stealing tenure slots, argues Rex Douglass
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-23
Rex Douglass claims math academia's efforts to shame AI tool users are a preemptive strike against junior researchers who will use these tools to compete for tenure. His thesis: the biggest threat to anti-AI mathematicians isn't engineers but fellow mathematicians wielding the same tools — competition within the guild is the immediate threat from new technology.
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