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The dark art of maths and the AI revolution | Letter
Publisher description: Letter: Bev Littlewood reminds us that mathematics has been the prime driver of the rise in AI, in response to an editorial
The Guardian | Sep 25, 2026 | Guardian staff reporter
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You report in your leader that some mathematicians feel discomfiture at the AI solution to a Navier-Stokes problem (The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that, 20 September). I fear that they have been hoist by their own petard: mathematics, after all, has been the prime mover of the AI revolution. As a somewhat lowly mathematician, let me remind others of the famous quote of Augustine: “The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty promises.
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