GoKawiilMathematician Álvaro Lozano-Robledo urges students to stay the course amid AI anxiety
In a guest post on Terence Tao's blog, mathematics professor Álvaro Lozano-Robledo responds to a distressed undergraduate who questioned whether a career in math academia is still viable given rapid progress in large language models. The student, who described feeling at a loss about career trajectory and even the meaning of life, asked whether academia would remain open to passionate but not exceptionally gifted students. Lozano-Robledo frames his post as advice to reassure students making near-term decisions about their futures.