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Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
(www.understandingai.org)
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Keep in mind that quite a number of those AI based "breakthroughs" in mathematics turned out to be wrong.
Interesting.
Got any sources for this claim?
LLM mathematical proof exploits theorem proover bugs [to get false statement to be "proven" true]
https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117002106099986943
Oof.
You don't really need evidence, we all know AI tends to hallucinate when presented with a problem they can't solve.
So far I've only read about 1 example of a problem that an AI may have solved. All the rest are without details and are not confirmed in any way.
Remember AI companies are huge on propaganda for their technology, but not so big on admitting the shortcomings.
Not at hand, but there were a number of news items about this in the last few weeks.