"doctors, lawyers, accountants, "

Regulated fields - another clueless poster lol.

I know many of you really hate whats happening but don't try and project it on other professions where the environment is different.

Society largely never cared about maths.

You might be mistaking my comment as a value judgement rather than an attempt to charitably explain the latest media communications from Tao. I detect in his position that some trust he granted the AI companies has been violated.

You are, of course, right that doctors, lawyers and accountants have more control over the environment they work in compared to mathematicians. But it doesn't change the underlying argument Tao is making. Your observation that those professions will react differently is likely to be true and only time will tell how effective their response will be.

But AI "assistants" is a marketing approach being made to all professionals at this time. Tao is implying this is a Trojan-horse strategy. If you let the assistants in without reasonable protections, you may lose control over the environment you are trying to protect.

you may not be aware of it but society largely runs on the results of maths, clueless indeed. and regulated or not, if there are financial savings to be made anyone can be shoved under the bus.