Two-buttons meme: mathematicians torn between AI job loss and proof verification backlog

theimposingshadow · reddit · 2026-10-12

A two-buttons meme captures mathematicians' dilemma: one button reads "AI solving math is gonna put mathematicians out of work," the other "the proofs released by AI will take years to go through and confirm." It pokes fun at both the job-replacement anxiety and the very real bottleneck of verifying AI-generated long proofs.

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