"Mathematicians did not ask for this work" may become the era's quote on AI upending academia
mjuric · x · 2026-10-09
A widely shared quip by Ariel Kwiat argues that the line "Mathematicians did not ask for this work to be done" may become one of the defining historical quotes of this era, capturing the decline of academia. The remark references how AI is rapidly completing mathematical work that was once the domain of mathematicians—unbidden by the academic community—and is being read as a symbolic moment of the field being reshaped by AI.
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