@tao@mathstodon.xyz It may be a step backwards, that only the ones that are already well-connected in academia get to give a talk at all. AI is a force of democratization, that you don't need to be trained by top researchers in a specific subfield to have a chance at pushing the frontier. The ideal world is one in which Fields-medal-worthy results (machinery, more than specific theormes) are being made by people (+AI) not in top institutions in US or Europe.