Silicon Reckoner
Michael HarrisWhat computers will do for, or to, mathematics and mathematicians
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Suppose I wanted to be a human robot…
Almost one year ago I received an invitation to write an essay about AI and mathematics for the Boston Review. Although I started working on the essay almost immediately, it is clear in retrospect that it would have been too early to publis...
The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
From the Leiden Declaration website
At 10 AM, June 2, 2026, Leiden University published a slightly adapted version of the press release copied below. At 12 noon Leiden time, all other outlets have been authorized to release the text.
The...
About that Erdős problem
From Soft City, a graphic novel by Hariton Pushwagner, 1969-75, currently on display at the New Museum in New York
Although I was busy with the kind of activity that typically occupies the time and the imagination of a working mathematicia...
Questions to ask AI boosters
From the Salt Lake Tribune, May 4, 2026: protesting a proposed data center at the Box Elder County Commission
AI companies and their models will follow one rule before all others: they will seek to maximise returns for their shareholders...
Who speaks for mathematics?
From the website https://www.pause-ai.de/appell#zitate
A handful of journalists around the world are responsible for extracting publishable copy from the blizzard of press releases about the latest Milestones™ achieved in the machine’s str...
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Number theorist, Columbia University professor, still active in Paris, author of Mathematics without Apologies.
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