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A profile of UCLA math 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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