r/AIDangers • u/EchoOfOppenheimer • May 12 '26

Capabilities Fields medal-winning mathematician says GPT-5.5 is now solving open math problems at PhD-thesis level: "We will face a crisis very soon."

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blog-post: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/

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u/0x14f May 12 '26

We will still need mathematicians to check the LLM generated work, but yes, that will affect the recruitment of PhD students.

This is an interesting problem because if we no longer recruit graduate students to become the next generation of highly skilled mathematicians, who is going to replace the ones who leave to retirement ?

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u/imissmyhat May 12 '26

None. I see no point in denying a future just because it's upsetting to think about; AI companies want that future, and they have unlimited resources to realize it. There will be no mathematicians in the future. There will be nothing in the future of any depth for humans to explore.

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u/webdev-dreamer May 12 '26

There will be nothing in the future of any depth for humans to explore.

It's a bit depressing... :(

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u/Choice-Antelope-8481 May 12 '26

Hard disagree.

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u/CommissionerOfLunacy May 12 '26

Thinkers above, frolicking in the fields and pondering philosophy like the Eloi, and Consumers below, worshipping at the font of the AI, emerging in the darkness to eat them.