I find this discussion odd. 50% of people mistake this guest post for a post by Tao himself. The post is by Amit Sahai, professor for computer science and math at UCLA.

Tao has been posting a flood of guest posts that stress inevitability and coping. Tao is fully invested in AI but needs to have the appearance of a broad discussion.

Sahai is of course exuberant about AI but wants to keep UCLA enrollment numbers high. The comments on Tao's blog are far less friendly than here, because by people see through the game that is being played.

Just look at the latest industry friendly post from Tao, where he pretends that it somehow summarizes the discussion so far:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/25/iciam-statement-on...

For my whole life I have never been subjected to an industry coordinated advertisement campaign that ruthlessly harnesses YouTubers, TikTokers, professors, open source people who all go in lockstep.

Tao, Gowers et.al. will go into history as the professors who ruined math.