{"slug": "ai-in-mathematics-2026-from-assistant-to-top-researcher", "title": "AI in Mathematics, 2026: From Assistant to Top Researcher", "summary": "A Fields medalist won the medal and left academia for OpenAI on the same day, marking a shift in AI's role in mathematics from executor to decision-maker, according to a postdoctoral researcher at ICMAT in Madrid who updated his online talk from 15 June 2026. The researcher, who volunteers for PauseAI Czech, argues that AI in mathematics is going exponential, with implications for the field and AI safety.", "body_md": "Seven weeks ago, mathematicians said AI could execute but not decide direction. Then a Fields medalist won his medal and left academia for OpenAI the same day.\n\nThis is an expanded and updated version of “AI in math is going exponential: A working mathematician’s view”, an online talk I gave to the Madrid effective altruism and AI safety community on 15 June 2026. A Czech version, “Stroj na věty: Co umělá inteligence dělá s matematikou a proč by nás to mělo zajímat”, followed on 29 June, delivered from Madrid to mostly in-person audiences in Prague and Brno. Given how much happened since then, the post is substantially updated. I am a postdoctoral researcher at ICMAT in Madrid; in my own time I volunteer for PauseAI Czech. These views are my own.\n\n[https://kubuondr.substack.com/p/ai-in-mathematics-2026-assistant-researcher](https://kubuondr.substack.com/p/ai-in-mathematics-2026-assistant-researcher)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-mathematics-2026-from-assistant-to-top-researcher", "canonical_source": "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iHSSr7bEsLrdoWhhw/ai-in-mathematics-2026-from-assistant-to-top-researcher", "published_at": "2026-08-03 13:15:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 13:30:45.006558+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "ICMAT", "PauseAI Czech", "Fields medalist"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-mathematics-2026-from-assistant-to-top-researcher", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-mathematics-2026-from-assistant-to-top-researcher.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-mathematics-2026-from-assistant-to-top-researcher.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-in-mathematics-2026-from-assistant-to-top-researcher.jsonld"}}