Mathematicians In Denial About AI Replacing Them

Sabine Hossenfelder β€’ October 9, 2025
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Learn more about artificial intelligence with Brilliant! Start learning for free at https://brilliant.org/sabine/ and get 20% off a premium subscription, which includes daily unlimited access! AI is threatening to take over multiple jobs currently fueled by human labor. It appears that the world of mathematics is no exception – a few recent advances in AI’s math capabilities seem to indicate that mathematicians might go the way of human calculators and find themselves fully replaced by proof-writing algorithms. Let’s take a look. Paper: https://www.preprints.org/frontend/manuscript/e671c3918cc35280b544fc4250424803/download_pub πŸ€“ Check out my new quiz app ➜ http://quizwithit.com/ πŸ“š Buy my book ➜ https://amzn.to/3HSAWJW πŸ’Œ Support me on Donorbox ➜ https://donorbox.org/swtg πŸ“ Transcripts and written news on Substack ➜ https://sciencewtg.substack.com/ πŸ‘‰ Transcript with links to references on Patreon ➜ https://www.patreon.com/Sabine πŸ“© Free weekly science newsletter ➜ https://sabinehossenfelder.com/newsletter/ πŸ‘‚ Audio only podcast ➜ https://open.spotify.com/show/0MkNfXlKnMPEUMEeKQYmYC πŸ”— Join this channel to get access to perks ➜ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1yNl2E66ZzKApQdRuTQ4tw/join #science #sciencenews #ai #math

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