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The New York Times profiles Terence Tao, the mathematician who became a tenured professor at 24, and why he has ended up as the field's unofficial spokesman on AI. The piece argues that established academics like him feel less threatened by AI than younger researchers just starting out.
- Tao says senior academics are not as threatened by AI as people beginning their careers.
- His celebrity has made him the de facto public voice for mathematics on AI, and that role now takes up most of his time.
- The math community is looking to him for answers, which the headline frames as a "war footing."