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I have recently heard a few extraordinary opinions about how mathematicians should use AI. One I would paraphrase as “professional mathematicians should never use AI for any problem not in their narrowly defined (by whom?) research program”, which seems ridiculous — one great advantage of AI is that it allows us to precisely broaden our own research (and mathematics more generally). But that is not what this post is about. Generally, my plan on this blog is neither to make predictions about the future nor to make any ethical pronouncements about its usage, but rather to understand its implications for mathematics as a discipline. (I always remind myself that my one prediction about AI was that computers would never beat humans at chess, and I’m not that old!) The question is: Question: What is the value of a result obtained by someone pressing a button in a context where they themselves contribute no insight? There are a number of subtle things that may count as insight, including whic

I have recently heard a few extraordinary opinions about how mathematicians should use AI. One I would paraphrase as “professional mathematicians should never use AI for any problem not in their narrowly defined (by whom?) research program”, which seems ridiculous — one great advantage of AI is that it allows us to precisely broaden our own research (and mathematics more generally). But that is not what this post is about. Generally, my plan on this blog is neither to make predictions about the future nor to make any ethical pronouncements about its usage, but rather to understand its…

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