Hannah Fry: How OpenAI has caused an existential crisis in mathematics

A few years ago, when I first started talking about mathematics in public, a professor of algebraic number theory pulled me to one side and gave me some sharp words of warning: "The world fears mathematicians, Hannah. Let's keep it that way." He was being, to put it mildly, a bit of a snob. Maths had an intimidating mystique to maintain, and I was apparently jeopardising it by titting around on the internet making videos and podcasts, rather than focusing on a perfectly respectable research career. I have thought a lot about that comment since. Partly because I have spent the intervening years doing everything I can to completely ignore him (and getting a New Scientist column feels like a rather lovely reward for doing so).