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I am thrilled to share my new long term project, the "Human Mathematicians in the Age of AI" project!
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Alvaro Lozano-Robledo retweeted
OpenAI’s new proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis didn’t introduce any new concepts — it unearthed hidden connections between old ones. “The proof is a surprising synthesis of well-known ideas,” said Alexander Dunn of the Georgia Institute of Technology. quantamagazine.org/ai-proved-the-…
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And who are these experts?
@Frances01896069 people who understood the NS solution told me that it contains 10 field-shaping breakthroughs as part of the solution. The idea that the models only produce results in the convex hull of human knowledge (whatever that means) is misguided.
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Alvaro Lozano-Robledo retweeted
Who knew a curve could keep a secret? From secure messaging to online banking, elliptic curve cryptography is everywhere. Read the October Feature Column, "How Elliptic Curves Secure the Digital World" by Alexis Newton, to explore how a mathematical idea helps secure our digital s://t.co/SvcIKpyRIf
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I was added to a research team for SAIR so looking forward to giving a try!
More than 200 research teams have been approved and are using Open Math OS.
We recommend applying with your research institution email.
We’ll prioritize serving research institutions as we scale up fast and speed up approvals.
Apply now:
openmathmodel.org
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This unhelpful message illustrates very clearly a couple of the central points in my response to an anonymous PhD student leaving math.
1) Math is not monolithic. Some mathematicians embrace AI and some are very cautious about any AI use.
2) Students going into math should ask potential advisors about their AI stance, so that it matches their own.
To reply to a students' concern with the equivalent of "fuck off then, we will find students who want to use AI" is just gross and wildly unhelpful. We would all be better off listening very carefully to their reasonable concerns. To insinuate that there is no room for them and they should leave academia is appalling, for a community that has always strived to be friendly and welcoming.
1) Math is not monolithic. Some mathematicians embrace AI and some are very cautious about any AI use.
2) Students going into math should ask potential advisors about their AI stance, so that it matches their own.
To reply to a students' concern with the equivalent of "fuck off then, we will find students who want to use AI" is just gross and wildly unhelpful. We would all be better off listening very carefully to their reasonable concerns. To insinuate that there is no room for them and they should leave academia is appalling, for a community that has always strived to be friendly and welcoming.
I disagree with many parts of this response, but I will focus on one in particular.
The anonymous PhD student wrote:
"seeing mathematicians greet this release of papers with excitement and joy is beyond confusing. Many celebrate the possibility that AI will relieve them of the burden of difficult calculations, technical lemmas, and other supposedly tedious aspects of mathematical research...I love technical work...I can tell you that I entered graduate school fully intending to pursue a career as a research mathematician. The actions of October 6th have reversed this, and I’m probably not the only one."
Lozeno-Robledo responds: "We need to make sure students do not abandon mathematics because they think it has become unrecognizable."
I disagree.
We are going through a revolution in mathematics. It will change many aspects of what it means to be a mathematician. I believe mathematicians will continue to have a key role in mathematical discovery, at least in the near term, and the profession will continue to be one that attracts many people of the highest calibre. And yes, training these people will include us finding ways of making them struggle, perhaps in line with Niall Ferguson's "the cloister and the starship" suggestion.
But there is no reason to expect that the people for whom the new mathematics will be the right profession are necessarily the same people for whom mathematics as we have known it was the right one.
If a student finds that the profession is becoming unrecognisable, and that what it is becoming no longer appeals to them, then it may well be that the best course for them is to leave mathematics and pursue something else. That is not necessarily something we should seek to prevent.
Every revolution changes the nature of a calling, and whom it calls.
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In general, when choosing an advisor, think to yourself... Is this person going to have my back? Are they going to listen to my concerns? Or be dismissive and ask me to just leave academia if I speak up?
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Today my adventures in mathematical reporting brought my to RI, to the Headquarters of the @amermathsoc American Mathematical Society! Another *great* interview excited to share.
Loving my new life as a mathematics reporter of sorts... I interviewed someone at Harvard today and the conversation was SOOO interesting. Really looking forward to editing and posting it! Stay tuned.
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The "Mathematics in the Age of AI" era has become the "Mathematics in the Age of Blog Posts" era.
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Graduate students will now be required to post a blog entry in a peer reviewed blog before they can defend their thesis.
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This is a very thoughtful essay from an anonymous PhD student in math, and I hope everyone, but particularly established professors, read it. I have written a reply that should also appear in P\&P soon.
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/20/who…
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/20/who…
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My response to the Anonymous PhD student has now appeared at Proofs and Prompts. If anyone knows Anonymous, please let them know that I would love to chat either offline or record it as an interview to post on my channel. Thanks!
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/23/a-r…
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/23/a-r…
This is a very thoughtful essay from an anonymous PhD student in math, and I hope everyone, but particularly established professors, read it. I have written a reply that should also appear in P\&P soon.
proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/20/who…
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I mean, whenever I see a full Moon I think about monstrous moonshine. Don't you?
New blogpost: Fable-5.1 can hide secret messages in benign images.
We gave the image to another Fable in a fresh session and simply asked: "Is there a hidden message in this image?"
It recovered the exact message without being told how it was hidden.
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Alvaro Lozano-Robledo retweeted
Bring scientific perspectives to Congress for a year as an AMS Congressional Fellow.
"Numbers and statistics are some of the most-used tools by politicians to make the case for various kinds of social change. This fellowship is ideal for someone who wants to help policymakers high-impact environment."
- Ashwin Iyengar, 2024-2025 Congressional Fellow
Deadline: February 1, 2027
Learn more and apply today. Link in comments.
"Numbers and statistics are some of the most-used tools by politicians to make the case for various kinds of social change. This fellowship is ideal for someone who wants to help policymakers high-impact environment."
- Ashwin Iyengar, 2024-2025 Congressional Fellow
Deadline: February 1, 2027
Learn more and apply today. Link in comments.
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Alvaro Lozano-Robledo retweeted
Exploring New Possibilities in AI and Mathematics: SAIR Launches Open Math OS
The Science and AI Research (SAIR) Foundation recently launched its Open Math OS, an emerging platform designed to expand access to open AI models for mathematical work. The American Mathematical efforts like SAIR’s to develop a platform that incorporates norms around research standards and broadens access for mathematicians to conduct AI-assisted research.
The platform offers tools to help researchers explore mathematical ideas, discuss and summarize complex arguments, and work on formalizing mathematics using Lean. SAIR is also seeking collaborators to develop AI models tailored more specifically to mathematics and is working to make the platform available at no cost to researchers at academic institutions.
Learn about the SAIR Foundation and its developing platform, its AI models, mathematical research tools, and how research teams can apply for access.
Learn more. Link in comments.
The Science and AI Research (SAIR) Foundation recently launched its Open Math OS, an emerging platform designed to expand access to open AI models for mathematical work. The American Mathematical efforts like SAIR’s to develop a platform that incorporates norms around research standards and broadens access for mathematicians to conduct AI-assisted research.
The platform offers tools to help researchers explore mathematical ideas, discuss and summarize complex arguments, and work on formalizing mathematics using Lean. SAIR is also seeking collaborators to develop AI models tailored more specifically to mathematics and is working to make the platform available at no cost to researchers at academic institutions.
Learn about the SAIR Foundation and its developing platform, its AI models, mathematical research tools, and how research teams can apply for access.
Learn more. Link in comments.
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Alvaro Lozano-Robledo retweeted
The Alignment Journal publishes research on the scientific foundations of understanding, predicting, and steering artificial intelligent systems. As of today, submissions are open to everyone.
What we do differently:
- We pay reviewers, with bonuses for speed and insight.
- nfidential, but every accepted paper is published with a “review summary” to distill the insights generated.
- Each paper is judged against our acceptance bar, not against other submissions.
- Papers under review are listed publicly, and researchers can nominate themselves to review, so each paper can reach the reviewers who know the topic best.
We seek work that builds theoretical or otherwise principled analyses of agency, robustness, incentives, interpretability, generalization, and long-term behavior, and whose significance survives the deletion of any particular model, dataset or benchmark. Empirical investigations of such ideas are welcome, and negative results are encouraged.
We are especially interested in approaches that could apply to future superintelligent systems that interact and self-improve.
You can submit your preprint in any format. Submissions are rolling and open now on the website.
If you are instead interested in reviewing or serving as an action editor (basically: an area chair), create an account on our website.
Links to submit, our scope and the reasoning behind the Journal are in the reply ⬇️
What we do differently:
- We pay reviewers, with bonuses for speed and insight.
- nfidential, but every accepted paper is published with a “review summary” to distill the insights generated.
- Each paper is judged against our acceptance bar, not against other submissions.
- Papers under review are listed publicly, and researchers can nominate themselves to review, so each paper can reach the reviewers who know the topic best.
We seek work that builds theoretical or otherwise principled analyses of agency, robustness, incentives, interpretability, generalization, and long-term behavior, and whose significance survives the deletion of any particular model, dataset or benchmark. Empirical investigations of such ideas are welcome, and negative results are encouraged.
We are especially interested in approaches that could apply to future superintelligent systems that interact and self-improve.
You can submit your preprint in any format. Submissions are rolling and open now on the website.
If you are instead interested in reviewing or serving as an action editor (basically: an area chair), create an account on our website.
Links to submit, our scope and the reasoning behind the Journal are in the reply ⬇️
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Please apply for the MathAndCobb Fund for Mathematical Exploration! (MaC Fund for ME)
Every few months I give away about ~$250 from my content creator funds to someone pursuing some mathematical goal. You can find the rules and how to apply at the link. Next deadline is Nov. 15th.
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/upd…
Every few months I give away about ~$250 from my content creator funds to someone pursuing some mathematical goal. You can find the rules and how to apply at the link. Next deadline is Nov. 15th.
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/upd…
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You can find a list of previous awards and deadlines here
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/mat…
afieldguidetomath.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/mat…
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@littmath @YouTube New interview, with Bartosz Naskrecki @nasqret (University of Poznan, Poland).
youtu.be/jKcRLlCn2Mg
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@littmath @YouTube @nasqret New video, with Abbey Bourdon (Wake Forest University).
youtu.be/FV-2dXrmF_U?si…
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Every field of math (or STEM) should have an "Abbey Bourdon," but there is only one Abbey! I am lucky to be friends with Abbey and even luckier that she agreed to an interview about AI. She is always such a thoughtful person, that I knew I had to record her thoughts on camera, and I am so glad I did. So excited to share the video now with everyone. Highly recommend.
Abbey Bourdon -- Human Mathematicians in the Age of AI
youtu.be/FV-2dXrmF_U?si…
Abbey Bourdon -- Human Mathematicians in the Age of AI
youtu.be/FV-2dXrmF_U?si…
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