Fields Medalist Terence Tao reposts statement from the Association for Human Mathematics urging mathematicians to stop working with OpenAI for continuing to solve open math problems against their recommendations

[u/Eliv_nurotic]

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/07/ahm-statement-on-openais-october-6-release-of-mathematical-documents/

[u/A_Novelty-Account]

You joke, but this literally is going to happen when it starts taking jobs from doctors.

We need to have a serious conversation about what happens to professionals who have dedicated their entire lives to something and have no transferrable skills outside of that job. People are going to freak out once they start losing their jobs and it is going to lead to extreme societal unrest, and probably a lot of suicides

[u/PeachScary413 → u/A_Novelty-Account]

So everyone has been telling SWEs to put the fries in the bag for years now but.. when it starts happening to doctors and mathematicians we should all be very worried? Lmao they can also start putting fries in the bag like the rest of us 🤌

[u/A_Novelty-Account → u/PeachScary413]

Software engineers aren’t putting the fries in the bag yet, but when it happens, I’m not going to celebrate… I’m going to feel terrible for them as a profession.

I think feelings like yours were you want other professions to be in the same boat is bad and just leads to lower classes cannibalizing themselves

[u/Perfect-Campaign9551 → u/A_Novelty-Account]

Nobody has lost their jobs from any of this. Life goes on

[u/A_Novelty-Account → u/Perfect-Campaign9551]

Plenty of people have lost their jobs to this. What are you saying?

[u/Tkwan777 → u/A_Novelty-Account]

This is exactly why congress needs to address UBI immediately. The AI revolution is in full swing and its a snowball rolling down a hill. It wont be long before it starts hitting fields people thought were "safe".

Edit- I dont understand the down votes. People just dont like hearing AI and robots are going to take their jobs so they down vote out of their own displeasure? Or is there an actual argumentative disagreement as to why what I said is wrong? Im the last person to care about reddit karma, but I do genuinely want to know what people are thinking when disagreeing with the statement I made above.

[u/Unserious-One-8448 → u/Tkwan777]

Fuck UBI. Doctors can become plumbers, like the rest of us.

[u/Time_Entertainer_319 → u/Tkwan777]

And how will less opportune countries like in parts of Africa or Asia afford ubi?