1,000+ mathematicians boycott AI, but Carlsen says neural nets deepened his chess understanding
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-26
Responding to mathematicians' pushback that AI can help with proofs but not human understanding, Hesamation points to chess: Magnus Carlsen says neural nets have "improved our understanding of the game immensely" and humbly notes "it's just that my understanding is not good enough." Context: over 1,000 mathematicians have joined the Association for Human Mathematics, pledging not to publish AI-generated papers or work with frontier labs; 654 of them won't use AI at all.
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