@tao@mathstodon.xyz Is this eventually boiling down to take permission and only then I'll guide or collaborate with you? This was already insinuated by many other PhDs as a warning to future scientists, when dissing mathathon. Because there's no reason that future students cannot absorb and distill knowledge in a sufficient enough manner that they cannot work out the methodologies and glean the insights once the core of a problem is tackled with AI support. How could a paradigm shift to solving problems be detrimental while citing status quo maintenance as one of the major reasons to deter innovation. Seems bizarre, though understandale if the aim was to put something out to sound credible.