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The paradox at the heart of AI and science | Terence Tao
Published 2026-10-28
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Terence Tao has spent decades solving problems which he likens to great adventures where one might take a wrong turn or see a cliff that can't yet be reached. Now, Tao watches as AI takes the journey for us, creating greater possibility in math and science. But, that possibility costs us something.
Watch Terence Tao's Full Interview ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
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About Terence Tao:
Terence Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia, where he excelled at university-level math by age nine and became, at 13, the youngest-ever gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He earned his PhD from Princeton at 20 and joined UCLA's mathematics faculty, becoming the university's youngest-ever tenured professor at 24. In 2006 he won the Fields Medal for contributions spanning partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory, and he remains a UCLA professor today, known for prolific, wide-ranging work including the Green–Tao theorem on prime number progressions.
Terence Tao has spent decades solving problems which he likens to great adventures where one might take a wrong turn or see a cliff that can't yet be reached. Now, Tao watches as AI takes the journey for us, creating greater possibility in math and science. But, that possibility costs us something.
Watch Terence Tao's Full Interview ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
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About Terence Tao:
Terence Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia, where he excelled at university-level math by age nine and became, at 13, the youngest-ever gold medalist at the International Mathematical Olympiad. He earned his PhD from Princeton at 20 and joined UCLA's mathematics faculty, becoming the university's youngest-ever tenured professor at 24. In 2006 he won the Fields Medal for contributions spanning partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory, and he remains a UCLA professor today, known for prolific, wide-ranging work including the Green–Tao theorem on prime number progressions.