SMRTR Science & EngineeringSep 8, 2026Hacker News

A Highly Productive Dark Age: The Impact of AI on Mathematics

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AI is rapidly solving major unsolved math problems, including a Millennium Prize Problem, raising fears about academia's "publish or perish" culture. As AI floods the field with proofs faster than humans can understand them, mathematicians may lose the slow, exploratory work that builds genuine mathematical intuition and judgment.

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