From undergrads to department chairs: the viral joke on AI solving math proofs
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-10-07
A viral bit imagines how every level of an academic math department reacts when AI can just produce proofs: undergrads thrilled to "learn math next to GOD," grad students realizing the hard part is now "autocomplete with proofs," postdocs wondering who referees 700 PDFs, and a chair deciding whether to hire mathematicians or people to verify the machine — landing on the real trust and peer-review crisis around formal proof tools like Lean.
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