{"id":20453,"date":"2026-10-06T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20453"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:17:30","slug":"is-ai-the-end-of-math-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20453","title":{"rendered":"Is AI the End of Math As We Know It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI-rewritten:<\/strong> This is a summary of an article from Quanta Magazine, rewritten by AI (Qwen, running locally) to make it easier to read. The facts come from the original article – read it for the full story.<\/p>\n

Quanta Magazine • Jordana Cepelewicz • October 5, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n\n

Throughout summer 2026, artificial intelligence models frequently offered proofs for decades-old mathematical conjectures. On September 8, OpenAI announced that its models had solved one of math’s most famous problems, sparking immediate controversy over authorship and standards. Scott Aaronson of the University of Texas at Austin wrote on his blog that he does not expect to prove another theorem in his remaining years because humans will no longer be needed for such proofs. He stated that human mathematicians are forevermore dethroned as the main theorem-proving entities on planet earth.<\/p>\n

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Two days after the announcement, Ken Ono, a mathematician who left academia for an AI start-up called Axiom Math, gave a talk at the University of California, Berkeley. He told a room of about 150 students, postdocs, and professors that they might be graduating into a profession that no longer exists or will be very different than expected. Ono said they need to brace for this change. The audience responded with anger and frustration, asking how Ono and his start-up would take responsibility given the shameful way AI companies are treating mathematics. When Ono said mathematicians would do their "very best" to avoid a bleak future, a student retorted tremblingly, questioning what that best effort actually is.<\/p>\n

Companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic are competing directly against mathematicians and poaching many of them to quickly prove theorems while putting little effort into writing clear papers or putting results in context. OpenAI has announced it is keeping more than 100 important results secret, which discourages mathematicians from working on questions that might already be moot. Tasmin Chu, a doctoral student at the California Institute of Technology, said this represents huge damage to open science and seeks to overwrite the central mathematical enterprise. Many mathematicians have stopped posting open conjectures for fear they will be scraped by bots and fed into AI models.<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> Quanta Magazine • Jordana Cepelewicz • October 5, 2026<\/p>\n

Read the original article at Quanta Magazine →<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AI-rewritten: This is a summary of an article from Quanta Magazine, rewritten by AI (Qwen, running locally) to make it easier to read. The facts come from the original article – read it for the full story. Quanta Magazine • Jordana Cepelewicz • October 5, 2026 Throughout summer 2026, artificial intelligence models frequently offered proofs<\/p>\n

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