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Is AI de-skilling us? After OpenAI said its AI had produced a proof of a $1M maths problem, an osteopath asks what humans will still be proud of.
Fakhar Anwar Safeer asks whether OpenAI's claim that its AI cracked a famous maths problem is exciting or scary. Alessio Zanghirati Urbanaz says his best friend is finishing a maths PhD after nine years of study and is worried, and Alessio says he is worried too. If we hand AI everything, he argues, we will be de-skilled, and if one day there is no AI or internet, what will humans be proud of? We still admire Michelangelo 500 years on because a human made it; in 500 years, if images are generate…
The facts: • On 8 September 2026 OpenAI said its AI had resolved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the $1M Millennium Prize problems, and published a machine-checkable version. The Clay Mathematics Institute, which awards the prize, has not confirmed the claim, and OpenAI says it will not claim the prize.
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