You tell them to cancel their Astra subscriptions and get to work. Hundreds of mathematicians, including Peter Scholze, have already agreed to not use AI at all. There’s absolutely no reason to help train an AI that will just make your own life more miserable.

https://www.ahmath.org/members

A friend of a friend had a grant project written up for the next 10 years, with habilitation on the horizon.

His end goal was one of the things released in the recent OpenAI publications. It took a model 3.5 hours to do.

Things are wild now on math and theoretical faculties now.

And for theoretical fields labs don’t need human data - synthetic one works well if not better.

The best thing you can do if you’re a scientist, imho - wrapup whatever grant you have now asap with ai, use ai to get more grants if possible, and spend the rest od the year learning what new science you can do with the new tools and participate in creating the new paradigm in your field.

That’s when you’re an established scientist. If you’re new in the field then this is the most exciting time you could wish for - an opportunity to make a name for yourself.

That's going to be a very short term solution, no?

You can't really swear off looking at problems solved by AI, or keep moving away from fields whenever AI starts contributing, and have a viable career.

Today's frontier models, are everybody's local models in the near future.

If this were a change that had expected stalls or reprieves it would be different.

Doing mathematics looks to be the next chess, er, I mean protein folding challenge. The latter's computation demands have dropped significantly.