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Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research.

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What’s the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?

October 9, 2026

Stephen Wolfram (0:05)

Hello, everyone. Well, I thought I would talk about something I just posted entitled What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI? So let me tell you what I said, and then we can have some discussion about it.

Headlines on History. The headlines keep coming. Such and such an AI system has solved such and such a math problem. More and more, I'm hearing people say, maybe we don't need people doing math research anymore. Maybe we should just delegate it to more and more powerful AIs.

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