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title: "A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process (Rivka Galchen/New Yorker)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-profile-of-ucla-professor-terence-tao-who-was-once-enthusiastic-3a58d07a
published: 2026-11-02T09:20:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process (Rivka Galchen/New Yorker)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-02 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/a-profile-of-ucla-professor-terence-tao-who-was-once-enthusiastic-3a58d07a

Rivka Galchen / New Yorker : A profile of UCLA professor Terence Tao, who was once enthusiastic about AI's role in math but now warns of AI destroying the field's deliberative process — A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.

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## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261102/p7#a261102p7)

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