Stanford theorist Omer Reingold: math community must renegotiate its deal with AI, with humility
IAmTimNguyen · x · 2026-09-30
In a Theory Dish essay amplified by Tim Nguyen, Stanford's Omer Reingold argues the math and TCS community has moved past denial — even Millennium Prize and FOCS/STOC open problems are within LLM reach. He calls bargaining (hoping frontier labs pause or tweaking publication rules) and depression the most harmful responses, urging senior mathematicians to continuously rebuild institutions while giving junior researchers a central voice. Core questions: what makes mathematical knowledge valuable, and what survives when models match or exceed humans? "We should approach the renegotiation with humility rather than entitlement."
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