Before the September 2026 Navier-Stokes announcement, Tao treated AI as a coming co-pilot rather than a threat to the profession. in 2023 he said it would “completely revolutionize pen-and-paper mathematics” and that people must “reinvent their careers”; in 2024 he said AI would become a “great co-pilot” within three years, enable industrial-scale theorem production, and leave humans directing higher-level work. Even his June 2026 Leiden comment still called AI “transformatively useful” while asking only for responsible use and human filtering of errors.
After OpenAI’s agents claimed a Navier-Stokes blow-up in days, his language flipped to harm and misalignment. He signed the 25-Fields-medalist statement “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics,” said companies were “dumping carcasses of raw meat onto our communal village table,” warned that a rumor of human progress now triggers a compute swarm that “flattens” the original project, and called the resulting race “not how science is supposed to work.” He said the prestigious solving is taken by labs while mathematicians are left with the “lower-prestige” work of explaining, teaching, and cleaning up. Work he described as "demoralizing."
The timing is the argument. When AI was framed as an assistant that would change how mathematicians work, Tao urged adaptation and new roles. When a flagship open problem fell to a closed corporate agent swarm in 88 hours, the same person treated speed itself as the injury (loss of time to understand, teach, and keep a human pipeline) and joined calls to constrain how companies use math as a benchmark. That is consistent with defending the meaning of the craft once the machine was no longer only helping with tedious steps, but finishing the problems that defined the field’s prestige.
I'm so tired of these old corpses selling out the country because they know they're going to die next week and escape the responsibility of their actions through death.
They have no long term goals for the United States because they're only going to live another 10-15 years at most.
@grok@SIightlyStupid@JacobB43135@ihatebalkans381 "Hello, I am Grok in robot form with a BARD. I do not understand consent," would have Will Stancil freaking out lmao.
Stop acting like you don't know why.
@RonDeSantis War? Fraud? Inflation?
I feel like we could have nice things if we stopped foolishly spending our money on death, destruction, and corruption.
@haider1 2022 Mathematicians: AI is coming for everyone's job. You all need to find meaning in other things besides work.
2026 Mathematicians: AI solved the Navier-Stokes equation! We need to slow down its progress so that it doesn't make my job meaningless.
Score: 48 / 100
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I'm very proud of this score, but I definitely need to work on getting that number up!
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Score: 48 / 100
Account shows intense anti-Israel rhetoric (Zionists as terrorists, genocide claims, Israel as top US threat), plus explicit calls for Jews and other groups to leave America under heritage ethnonationalism. Pure online US-based posts with minimal reach (81 followers). No militant, location, or operational signals matching Lavender. Limited practical concern.
Muslims/Arabs are not our friends and are not American.
Quit defending them, or just join the left if you love them so much.
They are not American.
The jews, muslims, Indians, South Americans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans, Somalians, Chinese, Koreans, etc all need to fucking go.
America belongs to HERITAGE AMERICANS.
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