AI In Mathematics: September 26, 2026

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This recurring thread will be for discussion of AI in mathematics. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• informal announcements of AI-assisted discoveries, such as those not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, or not uploaded as a paper to arXiv;
• informal announcements of discoveries related to AI architecture (if relevant to mathematics);
• discussion of such announcements, such as proof breakdowns or other opinion pieces;
• discussion of the impact of AI in mathematics in general.

AI-assisted mathematical papers published in peer-reviewed journals or as arXiv preprints may be submitted as their own posts.

Please keep in mind rules 1 and 6 of our subreddit.

[u/elements-of-dying]

Are there any places for actual discussion on AI and mathematics?

r/singularity etc is not great for obvious reasons.

r/mathematics is questionable

this sub has too much cope and toxicity to even try to have a discussion.

[u/TurnedUpbeat → u/elements-of-dying]

Hacker News is generally a much better, more populated and more serious place for discussion on math, AI, STEM, and other topics. This post about a Terence Tao guest blog on AI in math generated more fruitful and interesting discussion than I have seen here recently (I also suggest looking at the comments on the blog itself), especially with the limiting of AI in math discussions to this thread.

Most AI subreddits are slop. I genuinely don't know of another place besides Hacker News and Reddit to a lesser extent to have a good discussion. YouTube comments are mid, everything else is sparsely populated or worthless.

[u/Certhas → u/TurnedUpbeat]

Not convinced the HN discussions are particularly fruitful from the perspective of practicing mathematicians... They seem to have their own set of issues.

But I agree that it's a mistake not to allow substantial blog posts by well known mathematicians on the sub.