Mathematicians won't be spared: billions of recursive AI agents are coming for open problems
thegautamkamath · x · 2026-10-01
K. Fountouki pushes back on the claim mathematicians are safe from AI because of open-ended problems and Gödel: recursive models are around the corner, and billions of agents generating conjectures—with the same biases as you—will eventually run you over. ML research professor Gautam Kamath amplifies and asks what this implies for ML researchers and intellectual work generally.
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