BUZZING· 70%33m·2026-10-13·News PoliticsWhen A.I. Comes for Your Purpose in Life
Artificial intelligence has gone from struggling with basic arithmetic to helping solve some of mathematics’ most famous open problems — and the field is reckoning with what that means. Steven Strogatz, a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, describes the excitement and grief of watching A.I. take on work…
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