Terence Tao warns of real-world damage from delegating thinking to AI soon
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-11-04
Mathematician Terence Tao expressed concern that people are delegating their thinking to AIs: "I'm actually really concerned that we're going to actually see some real-world consequences of this pretty shortly," noting the worry extends beyond mathematics. Full video on the SAIR YouTube channel.
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