Questions Considered

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The emergence of increasingly capable artificial intelligence has been causing a fair amount of uncertainty in the mathematics community.

Jessica Randall, a South African mathematician for Google Developer Groups, says she sensed a collective existential dread rising among the young mathematicians [at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum].

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AI has the potential to transform their discipline. But there’s far less consensus on what that transformation will mean in practice.

What It Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math, by Benjamin Skuse.

There is an important struggle ahead and I think we will be seeing a lot of it in the coming years.

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