Terence Tao's blog hosts a guest post asking why we still need human mathematicians in the AI era

Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore?

Po-Shen Loh guest-posts on Terence Tao's blog, starting from the axiom 'we should help humanity flourish' and reaching a counterintuitive conclusion: as AI advances, it creates more human jobs than people can fill, which will eventually force AI progress to slow. The piece responds to the wave of declarations and open letters from mathematicians after OpenAI solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, and names economists like Cowen and Gans who pushed back. Loh argues any industry wanting to stay human-led should adopt this axiom publicly. The post does not provide a quantitative model or timeline; it is a position argument.

Why it matters: Terence Tao's blog hosts a Po-Shen Loh essay arguing that stronger AI creates more human-needed jobs than it fills — a counterintuitive take right after OpenAI's Navier-Stokes solve. HKR all hit: the headline hooks, the logical framework is new, and the resonance spans every i...