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jdw64today at 10:06 AM0 repliesview on HN

Watching the discussion unfold, here is what I feel:

Before arguing whether mathematics must strictly be done by humans, there are different motivations at play. Some people love the sense of solidarity within the community that forms during the process. Those excluded from that community might resent it, while others just purely want to solve problems.

Many things are being discussed, but looking at the overarching narrative, it seems that AI's true function isn't necessarily opening new horizons of specific knowledge, but rather excelling at 'serializing' topics that have been heavily fragmented until now.

In that sense, the concern is that because AI is solving the very problems needed to cultivate mathematicians internally, the stepping stones required for human growth are disappearing.

However, on the other hand, as the world and industries become increasingly complex and hyper-specialized, you could also argue that AI is the exact tool needed to unify this fragmentation across academia and industry. It is a highly complex dilemma.

From the perspective of researchers and the mathematical community, those 'problems for growth' must remain. But conversely, AI has the distinct ability to serialize siloed disciplines. Usually, when you go to graduate school, you often hear professors say that even within the exact same major, they cannot understand each other if their sub-specialties differ.