> Sure, math does require people in future, but it can't accommodate as many as it does today.
I actually think it probably can - after all mathematics isn't a commercially viable career and pretty much all mathematicians are scholars paid by universities and taxes. They're already fairly unnecessary and mostly kept around for interest and to have an educated population and so on. In a way they're uniquely positioned to survive the AI storm.
Not so for programmers who are almost all working for companies who would love to stop paying them given a chance.
I actually think it probably can - after all mathematics isn't a commercially viable career and pretty much all mathematicians are scholars paid by universities and taxes. They're already fairly unnecessary and mostly kept around for interest and to have an educated population and so on. In a way they're uniquely positioned to survive the AI storm.
Not so for programmers who are almost all working for companies who would love to stop paying them given a chance.