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The speaker says AI tools can translate book mathematics into Lean without considering whether the resulting formalization is easy to work with.

Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026

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“And what seems to be happening now is you can have an AI tool which just sees something in a book, doesn't think about it at all, just blindly translates that human-written, uh, mathematics into, you know, into Lean, the language, you know, the, the language that the software uses, and, uh, doesn't really care about making things easy.”
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