Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/mathematicians-warn-of-ai-threats-to-profession-as-industry-encroaches/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
> Inaccurate AI-generated drafts are cheap to produce, and there is a risk of cluttering the literature with claimed results that are simply wrong
It took a lot of hard work, but we finally invented a computer that can't do math.
@mcjevans @arstechnica that depends on what those AI LLMs are trained on.
Honestly, some of their explanations are easier to understand than a high school teacher's or a college professor's.
They might be brilliant with numbers, no doubt, but teaching is an art. Not everyone has the ability to convey knowledge in a way that everyone can understand.
@gabeweb @mcjevans @arstechnica
That some teachers do better than others is common...
But precisely there lies the strength of the #teacher profession: the ability to decide when and how to take the #freedom to adjust an explanation to make it better.
This is inherently out of the picture for generative AI systems... Except by adding the random fog that marketers call "creativity" which is the friend of hallucinations.
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