AI is breaking our proxies for expertise

seangoedecke.com
September 15, 2026
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AI is breaking our proxies for expertise Mathematicians are broadly not anti-AI. They’re more culturally open to using AI as a tool than, say, artists or writers1. However, now that more and more genuinely prestigious problems have fallen to AI, that might be changing. Almost five thousand mathematicians (including twenty-five Fields medalists) have signed a declaration called A Severe Misalignmen...
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