Mathematicians Just Fear Losing Prestige to AI, Argues Debate on Distillation
davidbessis · x · 2026-10-13
A debate over AI's impact on mathematics: one side argues mathematicians are really complaining that their prestige may decline as their role becomes distillation of hard-to-understand results—until that process itself is automated—and should focus on rearranging their prestige hierarchy instead. The other side fires back: why criticize only one party for its real-world constraints while ignoring OpenAI's obvious prestige-driven marketing stunt?
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