Math funding won't nosedive in the AI era: someone still has to ask the right questions
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-11
Arguing against fears that AI will crush math funding: in the short term there should be more of it than ever. Even in the limit, compute stays finite and costly, so allocating it well means deciding which questions to ask — a skill that still requires deep math. The author concludes conventional mathematicians will always have a role, shifting from derivation to question selection.
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