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Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next

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Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next

The Decoder · Sep 12, 2026, 8:28 AM UTC

In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners warn that the goals of the AI industry and mathematics are "severely misaligned." They argue that mass-producing solved problems with AI undermines the discipline's true goal: understanding. The mathematicians see this as a symptom of a broader threat to intellectual work.…