Lean co-author Jeremy Avigad pens paper urging mathematicians to embrace AI, not resist it
keviv9 · x · 2026-10-10
CMU professor Jeremy Avigad, co-author of the original 2015 Lean system paper, has published a new essay responding to the Math, Inc. sphere-packing formalization announcement, examining how mathematicians should face rapidly advancing AI-for-math.
- The paper includes back story on the Math, Inc. announcement and how the humans on the formalization project first received it.
- His key takeaway: mathematicians are extraordinary problem solvers and theory builders—rather than fighting AI's use in mathematics, they should own it, playing an active role in deploying the technology instead of merely designing benchmarks.
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