In early August, top mathematicians gathered at the offices of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in San Francisco for a summit on an existential question: What will be left for human math experts to do if artificial intelligence soon leaves them all behind?
“I think there’s a chance that we end up in a world where there’s no high-quality mathematics research, and human expertise in mathematics is totally lost,” said Daniel Litt, a professor at the University of Toronto. He gave a talk at the event titled “The End of Mathematics.”
