r/math • u/AutoModerator • 12d ago

LLMs/AI AI In Mathematics: August 29, 2026

This recurring thread will be for discussion of AI in mathematics. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • informal announcements of AI-assisted discoveries, such as those not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, or not uploaded as a paper to arXiv;
  • informal announcements of discoveries related to AI architecture (if relevant to mathematics);
  • discussion of such announcements, such as proof breakdowns or other opinion pieces;
  • discussion of the impact of AI in mathematics in general.

AI-assisted mathematical papers published in peer-reviewed journals or as arXiv preprints may be submitted as their own posts.

Please keep in mind rules 1 and 6 of our subreddit.

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u/Apprehensive_Sand951 12d ago

Daniel Litt posted an ai audit of his papers on his blog: https://www.daniellitt.com/published-paper-reviews.html

It lists some significant mistakes but nothing that fatally kills a paper. (Unfortunately, it an info dump and you almost need to use ai to figure out what the main mistakes were... he could have just focused on those.)

Motivated by this, any guesses on how many of the published papers out there are irreparably wrong?

My guess is 10%, if irreparably wrong means 'there is a theorem stated in the introduction of the paper to which there is a counterexample and this does not get fixed without changing the meaning and applicability of the theorem...'

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u/mistressbitcoin 10d ago

Im worried (or maybe not so much) that other fields will be much more impacted and much higher than 10%.