About whether AI will make human mathematicians obsolete, as happened in chess.
Has this happened?
Yes 11 (8%)Not sure 26 (20%)No 94 (72%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether AI will make human mathematicians obsolete, as happened in chess.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
imagine a future where even talented mathematicians are nothing but noise
That would be AGI. My conjecture is that LLMs alone are not enough for that future. They are incredible, but AGI needs other breakthroughs.
In that sense, I think math is very different from chess or Go. Chess and Go are complete-information games with fixed rules and a fixed board. Math is open-ended.