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Terence Tao
One of the world's leading mathematicians, and a careful tester of AI's reasoning.
Terence Tao is a Fields Medal winning mathematician who has become an unusually valuable commentator on AI, because he tests the claims himself on problems where being wrong is obvious.
His assessments tend to be precise rather than enthusiastic: where models genuinely help, where they produce confident nonsense, and where a result looks impressive but rests on a step no mathematician would accept. That makes him a good corrective to benchmark headlines.
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