> To take on this responsibility, we may need to broaden our view of what a mathematician can contribute. I have in mind something like a “deployable intellectual reserve”: communities of mathematically sophisticated people that humanity can call upon to help understand consequential AI-enabled breakthroughs.

> Our ability to understand difficult and unfamiliar ideas may become one of the most important contributions we can offer to society. We should be willing to bring that skill to problems far beyond our usual research interests. [3] Doing so asks us to expand our sense of our vocation.

Am I reading this wrong, or is he talking about what (mathematitian) Data Scientists have been doing for years? So he is basically saying that former Data Scientist that have turned into prompt/software engineers should go back to being data scientists.

In any case, people should stop trying to fit AI in the previous status quo. What we need is curious people, that is what we have always needed.

A few centuries ago there were no "mathematitians", there were mathematitians/philosophers/artists/physicists all in one person. So its not like "mathematitias" is something that has existed for millenia.

We need curious and ethical people.

Maybe AI brings back the age of a well rounded scientist/philosopher. I know this sounds counter intuitive because the article is saying that we cannot keep up with the AI.