Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?

[This is a guest post by Po-Shen Loh, crossposted from his blog, where an illustrated version appears. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Similar logic applies to every industry and every job. And it comes to the conclusion that we won’t have enough people for all the jobs that need to be done. [100% of this post’s prose was written by Po-Shen Loh in a vim terminal, with no AI generation. This webpage design, layout, and some headings and summaries were generated by Claude Code, with this raw text passed in as the prompt.] The moment of existential crisis, which AI has already wrought on other human pursuits, has reached mathematics. A host of reasoned declarations and open letters to protect/guide the math research community have been released over the past few months, spiking in intensity after OpenAI announced their solution to the Millennium Prize variant of Navier-Stokes. They quickly gained widespread support among…

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