What Will PhD Students Work On When AI Cracks Open Problems in Hours?
birchlse · x · 2026-10-07
A circulating retweet poses the question: it's hard to imagine what PhD students will work on once AI can solve famous open problems in a few hours. The short exchange captures a growing anxiety in academia — doctoral training has long centered on tackling frontier problems under an advisor, a premise now being undermined by rapidly improving model reasoning.
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