Joshua Tan
Hello! I’m a student / mathematician / computer scientist doing research on the intersections between geometry, artificial intelligence, and governance. I am currently doing a PhD at Oxford. I also help run the Metagovernance Project. For more details, jump to my research page.
Hello! I’m a mathematician / computer scientist doing research on the intersections between artificial and collective intelligence. I founded and lead research at Metagov. For more details, jump to my research page. To contact me, send me an email at joshua dot z dot tan at gmail dot com (remember the “z” in the middle, otherwise you’ll get someone different!). LinkedIn wouldn’t let me write more than 2000 characters in my old “co-mathematician” job description, so I’m posting it here instead. Okay, so what’s a co-mathematician? What exactly was I doing for a year at MIT in 2015? Now, it…
related reading
- The fall of the theorem economydavidbessis.substack.com
- LessWronglesswrong.com
- [2608.16753] Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org
- A New Consciousness of Mathematicsapoorvapanidapu.substack.com
- Mathematics in the age of AI - Public lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians 2026teorth.github.io
- 2023 letter | Zhengdongzhengdongwang.com
- Mathematicians in the Age of AI1footnote 11footnote 1I am grateful to Johan Commelin, Sidharth Hariharan, Bryna Kra, Emily Riehl, and Akshay Venkatesh for comments, corrections, and suggestions.arxiv.org
- Betalog · Daniel Littdaniellitt.com
- A somewhat optimistic view of AI in mathematicsproofsandprompts.com
- Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI | Quanta Magazinequantamagazine.org
- Computational Complexityblog.computationalcomplexity.org
- Terence Tao on AI — a living summary — Terence Taoteorth.github.io