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In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was only a 25 per cent chance an AI could write a mathematical paper at the level of the best human mathematicians by 2030. Only a year later, he thinks he was wrong. “I now expect to lose this bet,” he declared on his blog.

Mathematicians have been taken aback by the speed of improvements in AI’s ability to solve problems and produce proofs. “A couple of years ago, they were basically useless for even solving high school math problems, and now they can sometimes solve problems that really appear in the research life of a mathematician,” says Litt, who is at the University of Toronto.