The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
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The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
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ipdashc · · focus · HN ↗
They might be the first community I've seen to experience the AI "rush" and (at least as presented to an outside observer) immediately come together, assess the situation, and calmly, empathetically, and rationally act. They evaluated what AI is good at and what it lacks. They've thought through how it'll likely affect their field in the future. They've explained where the need for humans still lies, and made clear proposals for how to change their own field and for what demands to make of AI companies. Of course they're not all on the same page, but they're at least talking and trying.
They haven't started worshipping the machine god and loudly claiming their whole field is solved. Nor have they flailed wildly at LLMs as if complaining enough about it will make them go away.
Every major statement I've seen come out of the math community on this matter reads as well thought-through, humble, reasoned, and deeply human.
In these days of fear, uncertainty, and obsolescence anxiety, honestly, they've given me some confidence that maybe we will figure this stuff out after all. Maybe we'll learn from them. Who knows.
bamb008 · · focus · HN ↗
Can't disagree with "deeply human", but I wouldn't always use it in a positive sense:
<a href="https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/09/10/open-letter-about-the-mathathon/" rel="nofollow">https://proofsandprompts.com/2026/09/10/open-letter-about-th...
>Participation in an event so closely associated with Anthropic and OpenAI could plausibly negatively impact the future reputations of participants
neuroticnews25 · · focus · HN ↗