INRIA Researcher on the Crisis of Math Research in the Age of AI
BachFrancis · x · 2026-10-05
- Pierre Marion, a research scientist at INRIA, published a blog post on the future of research in the AI age, proofread by Francis Bach and Edwige Cyffers.
- He traces the rapid climb: ChatGPT (2022), Claude (2023), then reasoning models in late 2024; through 2025 AI surpassed strong high-school and IMO-level math, and by 2026 began tackling major research conjectures—plunging the math community into a crisis over automation.
- Writing as a tenured French civil servant, he declines to prescribe a path, arguing researchers' attitudes toward LLMs depend on field and personal motivation; he instead aims to convey reasonable optimism.
- Core questions: how AI reshapes how researchers work, how they are evaluated and hired, and the deeper meaning of research itself.
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