Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI

TL;DR

This paper discusses how AI is rapidly transforming mathematics and offers recommendations to ensure the mathematical community actively shapes its future across values, practice, teaching, technology, and ethics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of AI's impact on mathematics and proposes strategies for the community to guide its ethical and practical development.

Findings

AI is transforming mathematics at unprecedented speed and scale.

Recommendations include safeguarding autonomy, rethinking practice, and developing shared ethics.

Emphasizes community-led shaping of mathematics' future.

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is transforming mathematics at a speed and scale that demand active engagement from the mathematical community. We examine five areas where this transformation is particularly pressing: values, practice, teaching, technology, and ethics. We offer recommendations on safeguarding our intellectual autonomy, rethinking our practice, broadening curricula, building academically oriented infrastructure, and developing shared ethical principles - with the aim of ensuring that the future of mathematics is shaped by the community itself.