Mathematician Charton: AI critics' arguments beat AI fans' counters in the maths debate
f_charton · x · 2026-10-17
Researcher Fabian Charton weighs in on the AI-and-maths debate, saying he has little to contribute as everything is "too confused and fast-moving." But he keeps noticing one thing: the arguments from mathematicians critical of AI are consistently more interesting than the counters from AI fans.
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