As Bertrand Russell noted, sometimes there is an escape from the treadmill of pure mathematics being taught to people, who teach it to people, who teach it to people…
Archimedes used mathematics to kill Romans, Galileo to improve the Grand Duke of Tuscany’s artillery, and modern physicists to exterminate the human race.
We can now add to this sordid list artificial intelligence automating surveillance and genocide. Mathematicians need not be participants in this process; nor passive spectators.
Something in this direction is given by the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics.
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