AI is dividing the math community and chilling open collaboration
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-10
Economist Omar Zidar reports that AI is dividing the math community: some mathematicians are guarding their work and skipping collaborative conferences over AI concerns, preferring the "hike" of research over being "helicoptered" to results. Joe Weisenthal calls AI-proofing's chilling effect on open collaboration the most straightforwardly negative repercussion of the whole wave.
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