Full guest post on Tao's blog: why mathematicians shouldn't be sad about AI's rise
Hesamation · x · 2026-11-02
Link post to the same Frank Calegari guest article on Terence Tao's blog, with extended excerpts:
- OpenAI's October 6 release of 700+ papers was a watershed; AI now undeniably contributes groundbreaking mathematics.
- Much unease stems from AI companies disregarding community norms — atrocious writing, attribution violations, some errors — but mathematicians control hiring, publishing, and training, so efforts belong there.
- The OpenAI dump barely dented Langlands-program problems; even solving them all wouldn't "solve number theory", just as the periodic table didn't solve chemistry — central problems are boundaries of understanding, and unlocking them opens new playgrounds.
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