[qnleigh]

Can you describe what the reaction to these results has been like in your department? Obviously many people are excited, but what else? How do grad students feel about this? Are any professors getting worried about becoming obsolete?

[csheehan10]

I am a PhD student in mathematical statistics. The people I have spoken too think this is very exciting and cool. There is also a sense of unease about what this will mean in terms of being a mathematician, and what effects it will have on our future employment.

I am also a little worried about what it means for your training as a junior PhD. Often you would try and solve a problem your advisor thinks is doable that they assign to you as a learning exercise. It may be more and more difficult to find problems that a junior PhD can solve but that AI can not. Tim Gowers has written about that here: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-...

[fragmede]

HN comments for Gowers post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262

[anonymousDan]

One concern is that it will become more and more challenging to conduct cutting edge maths research without substantial resources only available at very rich institutions (to pay for state of the art AI assistants).