Math, Encryption, and the AI Bubble: What AI Could Break

Last Humans in the Loop · Oct 15, 2026 · 1h 1m · transcript

MATH / SCIENCE

00:00 The Mathocalypse, cryptography, and the AI bubble

00:32 OpenAI's "Slop Drop": 722 mathematical problems resolved

01:39 AI tackles the quasi-Riemann hypothesis

03:37 AI breakthroughs reach physics and astronomy

04:15 Strange improvements to fundamental algorithms

05:08 Errors and skepticism surrounding AI-generated proofs

06:48 AI improves Fourier transform complexity

10:25 Mathematicians react with awe, anger, and despair

12:41 Terry Tao: Would you use an AI-discovered cancer cure?

14:27 Is math about understanding or finding answers?

16:00 AI solves a mathematician's…