Scott Aaronson: Claiming AI Can't Do Math Is Now 'Completely Untenable'
haider1 · x · 2026-10-15
Theoretical computer scientist Scott Aaronson: "For a year or two, people deluded themselves that AI might replace software engineers, but math is the pinnacle of human intellect. That's now completely untenable."
He also notes a recurring pattern: whatever AI achieves, people claim "of course AI could do that, no one ever doubted it" — even if they doubted it six months earlier.
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