What Peter Woit thinks about documentation
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Peter Woit has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsthe math community needs to adopt a version of the ethical standards of experimental science. If you are using AI agents, you can't just give a proof (formalized or not), but need to also provide a detailed explanation of how these agents were used to get the result.