Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?
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- The fundamental axiom that humans should help humanity flourish is essential for preserving human-led communities of expertise across all industries, including mathematics.
- No intelligent species voluntarily surrenders control to a less capable species, so humans must maintain leadership over AI to ensure human flourishing.
- The advance of AI creates a tsunami of control points requiring skilled human oversight, leading to more jobs than people to fill them, which will eventually slow AI progress.
- To effectively steer AI, humans need domain mastery and active practice at the frontier, justifying the preservation of human research communities.
- Adopting the human flourishing axiom forces communities to embrace uncomfortable changes, such as using AI as a tool while maintaining human direction and valuing teaching.
- In mathematics, the axiom supports explicitly declaring human flourishing as a core value, using AI to assist discovery, and focusing research on problems with potential long-term practical benefits.