Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI

·Terry Tao··

Tanya Klowden and I have uploaded to the arXiv our preprint “Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI“. This is an unabridged version of a solicited article for a forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Mathematics. I rarely write article-length essays of a philosophical nature (perhaps the last one was in 2007), but given the topical interest in AI and formalization for mathematics, which has begun to raise increasingly fundamental questions about what the nature, pu...

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