Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel

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In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900.

What's being tested this time isn't mathematical truth but the values of the field: what counts as a contribution, what gets rewarded, and who did the work.

His rule of thumb: a proof that no human can explain should be considered incomplete.

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