The hardest part of solving a mathematical problem is the part AI has not touched; he still does it with pen and paper.

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• What AI still cannot do in mathematics is build cumulatively on partial progress; it is trial, error and brute force rather than an idea improving through use. TTTerence Tao20 Mar 2026
• Within a decade AI will do the bulk of what mathematicians spend their time on, and we will discover that was never the important part of the job. TTTerence Tao20 Mar 2026
• Alignment is the central problem in AI, not a side problem: if solved, the rest becomes easy; if not, the rest is impossible or worse. ZMZvi Mowshowitz7 Sept 2026
• Writing is thinking on paper and there is no shortcut for doing that thinking, so handing the writing to AI hands away the thinking. CMCharity Majors12 Aug 2026
• AI will increasingly produce mathematical proofs, just as it already writes most code. DLDaniel Lemire11 Sept 2026

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