Debate: are mathematicians just protecting their prestige from OpenAI?
panickssery · x · 2026-10-13
panickssery and mathematician-turned-writer davidbessis clash over mathematicians criticizing OpenAI. panickssery argues the complaint that OpenAI might "halt the progress of mathematics" is really about prestige: as AI automates the distillation of hard-to-understand results, mathematicians' status drops — unrelated to OpenAI's shareholder-value motives. davidbessis counters that OpenAI is running an obvious prestige-driven marketing stunt too, so why blame only one side's real-world constraints.
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