{"slug": "in-2000-ted-kaczynski-advised-against-math-career-due-to-future-ai-progress", "title": "In 2000, Ted Kaczynski advised against math career due to future AI progress", "summary": "In 2000, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, advised a correspondent against pursuing a career in mathematics, predicting that the job would be taken over by artificial intelligence, according to a post on X by user nk. The exchange, which occurred while Kaczynski was imprisoned, has drawn attention for its foresight regarding AI's impact on the field.", "body_md": "Imagine if Ted Kaczynski was just starting his mathematical career today\n\n# nk on X: \"@Quasilocal I don't know if you know that one, but he had a letter exchange in 2000, out of prison, where he advises against going into math because that job would be taken by AI.\"\n\n- I don't know if you know that one, but he had a letter exchange in 2000, out of prison, where he advises against going into math because that job would be taken by AI.\n- Wow, that’s prescient! Did this guy write anything else?\n- Wow I did not know about this at all. I actually kind of wish he lived to see it happen", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/in-2000-ted-kaczynski-advised-against-math-career-due-to-future-ai-progress", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/subcountability/status/2091164267827327042", "published_at": "2026-08-23 03:47:05+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-23 04:13:15.842264+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Ted Kaczynski", "X"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/in-2000-ted-kaczynski-advised-against-math-career-due-to-future-ai-progress", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/in-2000-ted-kaczynski-advised-against-math-career-due-to-future-ai-progress.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/in-2000-ted-kaczynski-advised-against-math-career-due-to-future-ai-progress.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/in-2000-ted-kaczynski-advised-against-math-career-due-to-future-ai-progress.jsonld"}}