The reason behind this post more or less comes from the small but noticeable influx of AI doomposts over on r/math. The mods there didn’t let me post this though :/
For the past century we’ve been getting computers to perform more sophisticated calculations and assist us more and more in our endeavors. Each time a computer got better at one thing, we got better at another. Now we have LLMs, and things certainly \*feel\* different but perhaps they aren’t. I want the notion of an LLM replacing a mathematician to be absurd on account of what they’re designed to do and I want to believe that regardless of “AI” existing in some form, there will always need to be an expert in the driver’s seat. But what if that’s not what happens? What if, in a gut-wrenching turn of fate, that mathematics is \*uniquely\* vulnerable to technological progress?