1,000+ Mathematicians Pledge Not to Use AI, Mocked as Medieval Scribes Rejecting the Printing Press
esrtweet · x · 2026-10-27
Citing stats that over 1,000 mathematicians have joined an "Association for Human Mathematics" — pledging not to publish AI-generated papers, not to work with frontier labs, and 654 of them vowing not to use AI in research at all — @IterIntellectus satirizes the movement by analogy: over 1,000 medieval scribes joining an "Association for Human Manuscripts," swearing never to use the printing press or work with Gutenberg, 654 refusing to even read a printed book.
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