Mathematicians' anti-AI statement goes viral, mocked for 'we never asked for this'
nptacek · x · 2026-10-09
Ethan Mollick shared a document from mathematicians pushing back on AI, predicting it will become assigned reading for courses covering this era. Commenters like xlr8harder sympathize with mathematicians whose field is being upended — but say the document undermines that sympathy, with the line "Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done" widely mocked. Others compared it to the old guard resisting the Metropolitan Opera over the Academy of Music.
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