1990s letter predicting math would be the first field lost to AI goes viral on Reddit
aKaizuh · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit post shares a 1990s letter from Ted Kaczynski arguing mathematicians would be made obsolete before other professionals because mathematics is more amenable to computerization than any other field. The poster sees this prediction playing out today; commenters debate whether recent AI results on competition math confirm it or simply reflect math being the most formalizable domain.
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