What Luciano Floridi thinks about mathematics
Italian-British philosopher of information and digital ethics; founding director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University and professor at the University of Bologna; author of The Fourth Revolution.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Luciano Floridi has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe mathematicians understood what they were doing: either the agents did too, or we can now delegate the doing while keeping understanding human. I support the second alternative.
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Their wordsIf machines produce mathematics and humans certify it, we have confused quality control with mathematical inquiry.
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Their wordsAI is revealing what scarcity allowed us to overlook: the scarce resource in mathematics, as in science, was never ultimately the proof or the experiment but the brilliant question.