AnalysisScienceOctober 13, 2026

Terence Tao: AI decoupled answers from understanding in math

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Fields Medalist Terence Tao says the centuries-old link between getting a math answer and understanding it broke in the last few months, as people with no domain expertise now get correct, verifiable answers and learn nothing. He argues AI can't be trusted on its own but isn't useless: mathematicians already use LLMs to surface forgotten approaches.

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