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Tao: ‘Additional recent pieces on math and AI’ (reading list)

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Tao’s own list of the essays he considers worth reading on mathematics and AI in autumn 2026; a map of the debate among mathematicians.

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Posted Oct 12, 2026. Tao collects ‘other recent blog posts or opinion pieces on math and AI beyond the ones posted here or at Proofs and Prompts’ and invites readers to add more in the comments. The list: Kevin Buzzard, ‘To grieve, or not to grieve?’; Alexander Gamburd, ‘The Siren Call of Silicon Leviathan’ (arXiv 2609.28591); Harald Helfgott, ‘Mathematics and the AI crisis’; Gil Kalai, ‘”Be a Grothendieck!”: On AI and Mathematics’; Asaf Karagila, ‘OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and mathematics’; Matilde Marcolli, ‘Duet for the end of math’; Fenner Stanley Tanswell, ‘Enshittification of Mathematics’ (The Mathematical Intelligencer). Read via the blog’s RSS feed on Oct 12.

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Source: terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/additional-recent-pieces-on-math-and-ai

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