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UIUC proof engineering researcher Talia Ringer warns AI developers might claim mathematical automation without executing deep reasoning

Similar anxieties are circulating within the Agda formal verification community

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Neat to see this article come out as I'm navigating fears of this in the Agda community

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/science/ai-scoop-young-mathematicians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.olA.dJte.wZXzslO706sU&smid=url-share

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@SidharthHariha1 @nytimes @NYTScience Aw man, that sucks. Hope you get some reasonable credit for this work.

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Sidharth Hariharan@SidharthHariha1

@ShriramKMurthi @nytimes @NYTScience It’s certainly been a stressful few months!

We’ve got a preprint out describing this milestone, and once the project is finished, we’ll write a longer paper, crediting everyone involved (including collaborators from Math Inc).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23468v3

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Andrew Tan@andrewtanyongyi

@TaliaRinger "A proof [of the optimal solution of the sphere packing problem] evaded mathematicians until 1998."

But even that famously was too difficult for humans to referee, leading Thomas Hale, who proved the conjecture, to formalize it using Isabelle & HOL Light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_conjecture

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