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Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance
By Scott Aaronson | May 27th, 2026
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9782
. . . OpenAI helpfully included commentary from Timothy Gowers, Noga Alon, Will Sawin, Daniel Litt, and many other experts, reflecting on the breakthrough, the path that GPT took to get to it (which can actually be seen by examining its chain-of-thought), and what this might mean for the future of mathematical research.
I heard the news maybe an hour after it broke, when some UT grad students came to my office to tell me. For what it’s worth: these students were morose, musing about how everything might soon be over for young scientists and mathematicians like themselves. I don’t know whether they’re right, but I feel like I should tell the truth about what their reaction was. . . .
And then, just today, Jelani Nelson alerted me to a new CS theory paper, which solves a longstanding open problem about electrical flows on graphs using a proof from GPT5.5Pro.
It seems to me that we’re now over the top of this particular rollercoaster, and it will keep accelerating until we reach the bottom, wherever that might be. I don’t know whether to hope or dread that solutions to P versus NP and all our other great problems will be included in the ride—that our role, as human mathematicians, will be reduced to (at most) deciding which questions we find interesting and then understanding AI models’ answers to those questions.
But maybe that won’t happen. Maybe the new AI mathematicians will soon hit a wall, because they lack the uncomputable quantum gravity microtubules of Penrose and Hameroff, or some other magic human ingredient. The fantastical thing is that, one way or the other, we’re going to find out empirically before very long.
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. . . But maybe we should just throw in the towel—as some of my colleagues have already done in the context of undergraduate projects? Maybe we should simply say that a good story is a good story, regardless of what manner of entity produced it?
As it happens, just last week I read my very first AI-written story that affected me as a story, to the extent that I wanted to read it more than once. This happened when I gave GPT5.5Pro the following simple prompt:
Write me a story about the most ancient Israelites that’s riveting like the stories of the Bible but that’s also consistent with all of the archaeological evidence.
You can read the result here. https://tinyurl.com/y8xa3ust One of my Facebook friends called it “disturbingly good,” and I share that assessment. Of course, I’m well aware that GPT could easily generate a thousand stories like this one—sampled from the same probability distribution—and then I could even do statistics on which tropes were the most common. This makes it feel silly to overindex on the first story that happened to be output, and yet somehow I did.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529849-fully-autonomous-drones-h
ave-killed-human-soldiers-for-the-first-time
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How AI chatbots become better learning coaches
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-chatbots.html
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Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
https://gizmodo.com/why-do-chatbots-keep-telling-stories-about-someone
-named-elias-thorne-2000770629
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the new generation and world chatbots
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Samsung is building floating data centers on ships, and it's already got regulatory approval
https://www.techspot.com/news/112738-samsung-building-floating-data-ce
nters-ships-already-got.html
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The Entire US Economy Is Downstream Of The AI Buildout Dam, And That Dam Is Almost Certain To Fail
The US economy is currently propped up by an AI infrastructure buildout that mirrors historical speculative bubbles.
• Jun 12, 2026 at 1:15 PM EDT
https://talkmarkets.com/article/the-entire-us-economy-is-downstream-of
-the-ai-buildout-dam-and-that-dam-is-almost-certain-to-fail-1781286319
“Most people liken the AI boom to the dot-com bubble.
“We are watching the same movie with AI startups today. . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Japan’s AI goldrush faces backlash as data centers sprout up in urban areas
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2026/06/21/data-center-pushba
ck/
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Why Does Everyone Hate AI?
Paul Krugman
Jun 25, 2026
. . . We fear that AI will do terrible things because the companies selling it told us it would do terrible things. Last year, for example, Anthropic CEO Darius Amodei declared in an interview with Axios that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs and drive overall unemployment as high as 20 percent within 1 to 5 years.
More recently, Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman have tried to walk back their predictions of a “jobs apocalypse”. But why were they so willing to promote apocalyptic visions in the first place? The answer is money. They pushed the idea that they had a technology that would quickly and utterly transform the economy, partly to dazzle Wall Street and secure financing, and partly to scare businesses into rushing into AI adoption for fear of being left behind.
Only belatedly did they realize that declaring that your technology will wreak devastation would lead to a public backlash, and that this backlash would be a serious problem.
More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-everyone-hate-ai
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Gods and Slaves: AI and the Debate of Humanity's Relationship with the Other
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecosmicintelligence/p/gods-and-slaves-
ai-and-the-debate
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