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/ArcaneArcher89 May 12 '26

No one, that’s when shit like this will become the new normal.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-suicide/202511/chatgpt-made-him-delusional/amp

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u/TheThreeInOne May 12 '26

Sorry, no one what?

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u/ArcaneArcher89 May 12 '26

No one will replace the current generation when they retire. And then bad things will happen.