What Alex Kontorovich has said about Artificial intelligence
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 26, 2026
Alex Kontorovich, Number theorist at Rutgers University working on the Riemann hypothesis and the Lean proof assistant, has been quoted on Artificial intelligence 2 times in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on October 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Kontorovich argues that AI is ushering mathematics into a golden age of knowledge rather than merely a crisis.
“I think we're entering, if we're not already, in a period of some kind of golden age of mathematical knowledge”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 10:25
Kontorovich argues that pure mathematics remains valuable even if machines can prove theorems, because its value lies in human understanding.
“I think the value of pure mathematics is that it lives in the heads of human beings”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 20:11
Episodes
#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity TheoryLex Fridman Podcast · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 h 43 min
Lex Fridman and mathematicians Alex Kontorovich, Ankur Moitra and Steven Brunton discuss AI's claimed proofs of quasi-Riemann, Navier-Stokes, unique games and what it means for mathematics.
Others on Artificial intelligence
- Joe Rogan · 15 quotes
- Tim Ferriss · 7 quotes
- Peter Thiel · 5 quotes
- Fei-Fei Li · 5 quotes
- Shekhar Natarajan · 5 quotes
- Sean Kelly · 5 quotes
- Mark Cuban · 4 quotes
- Shaan Puri · 4 quotes
Alex Kontorovich on other topics
- Mathematics education · 2 quotes
- Riemann hypothesis · 2 quotes
- Fields Medal · 1 quote
- Fermat's Last Theorem · 1 quote
- Lean (proof assistant) · 1 quote