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Terence Tao on AI — a living summary — Terence Tao

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A curated summary of Terence Tao’s current thinking on AI, with practical guidance and links to source material. Positions are distilled from ~70 Mastodon posts, some sixteen interviews and talks, six long-form essays and lectures, ~55 of his own blog comments, and a direct interview; not everything he has said appears here, by design — omission is editorial. Voice is third person; scope is confined to what is obviously about AI. Latest: his ICM 2026 public lecture “Mathematics in the age of AI” (July 24, 2026) gathers much of this into one argument; its slides are now folded into this summary (see “The ICM 2026 argument” in Part V), and it will be revised again once the lecture recording is available. How this page was made. This summary was compiled and drafted by an AI assistant (Claude) from Terence Tao’s public writing, talks, and interviews, then reviewed and corrected by him; the companion interview was conducted by that assistant, with his answers reproduced verbatim (lightly e

A curated summary of Terence Tao’s current thinking on AI, with practical guidance and links to source material. Positions are distilled from ~80 Mastodon posts, some sixteen interviews and talks, six long-form essays and lectures, ~55 of his own blog comments, and a direct interview; not everything he has said appears here, by design — omission is editorial. Voice is third person; scope is confined to what is obviously about AI. Latest: his September 2026 statement for the record on his views on AI and his interactions with the AI industry, folded in at the end of Part V. His fullest…

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