Terence Tao

Terence Tao is a Fields Medal–winning mathematician, professor of mathematics at UCLA, and Director of Special Projects at UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, where he works at the intersection of advanced mathematics, collaboration, formalization, and AI-assisted mathematical discovery.

AI Is Lowering the Cost of Experimentation in Mathematics

Fields Medalist Terence Tao argues that AI is changing mathematics by lowering the cost of experimentation: researchers can test unlikely ideas, offload tedious computations, search literature more effectively, and keep collaborations moving. OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen frames that shift as part of a broader goal of building tools that help many scientists make discoveries themselves, rather than positioning AI companies as the primary claimants to scientific credit.

OpenAIMay 30, 20264 min read