Mathematicians

AUTOMATION RISK

CALCULATED

28%

risk level

POLLING

22%

Based on 565 votes

LABOR DEMAND

GROWTH

-0.1 %

by year 2032

WAGES

$116,440

or $55.98 per hour

Volume

2,220

as of 2023

SUMMARY

JOB SCORE

6.5/10

28% (Low Risk)

Low Risk (21-40%): Jobs in this level have a limited risk of automation, as they demand a mix of technical and human-centric skills.

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Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (yearly)

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Mathematicians' was $116,440, or $55 per hour

'Mathematicians' were paid 142.3% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

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Kevin Gonzalez Gordillo 20 days ago

Lately, I have been studying Gödel's Incompleteness theorems, and I was thinking, could an AI, or even an AGI, discover that in a consistent system of arithmetic, there are true statements that cannot be proven (incomplete system)? I mean the level of self-awareness and nuance that it would take to discover such a theorem and prove it true would be astounding since not even the best mathematicians of Gödel's times were convinced that was the case. So at this level of logic, I would really doubt an AI would take the jobs of people responsible for opening the heart of mathematics and showing the gaping hole of its fundamental flaw; for any mathematician reading this: Let's keep proving the true, the false, and the unprovable truths, and let's "embrace the unknown at the heart of any quest for truth" -(TED-Ed).

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papo (No chance) 1 month ago

Mathematics is a science that is still in discovery, AI will not be able to understand this context

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skyss0fly (Moderate) 3 months ago

Robots have to utilise logic in their programming using arithmetic skills and therefore use mathematics to perform tasks and as such can compute mathematical tasks quite easily

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Chickenlover69 21 days ago

Being a mathematician is researching math itself, like science. It needs creativity and human intelligence. For example, I certainly don't think AI can discover or invent complex numbers such as i, i = sqrt(-1). But I think you misunderstood the job of a mathematician as you probably thought that they just solve regular math questions that we already know how to solve, no it's not. Math is part of science and will always will be. Science will never be able to be taken over by AI. Remember that.

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Anon (Uncertain) 8 months ago

Logic can be programmed, so they may be able to eventually prove theorems

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Europe2048 (Moderate) 11 months ago

Maybe WolframAlpha is taking over?

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Me (No chance) 11 months ago

Mathematical insights rely on human originality.

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Anish (Highly likely) 1 year ago

It will simply outclass us in every field.

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Probabilist 1 year ago

Mathematicians generally find new ideas to solve problems, they also find new questions, whereas AI is just able to copy what already exists and to adapt it to classical situations. But maybe mathematicians will be able to create themself a new AI which will be able to replace them !!

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Andre (Highly likely) 1 year ago

People saying this is unlikely are silly. The progress in the field of computer generated proofs has been faster than the progress in AI art. I don't expect any of the Millennium Prize problems to be solved by humans, and I expect them all solved by 2030.

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Jason 17 days ago

I find it equally silly when you say that none of the Millennium Prize problems will be solved by Humans and all of them will be solved by 2030 (I consider myself an amateur mathematician at best, but from what I understand, the Poincare conjecture has been solved, and the solver, Grigori Perelman I think he's human?) I've hanged out in some mathematics communities and from what I've seen ai has proved some competitive math questions, I guess the four color theorem requires computer assistance, and I've seen Terrence Tao say that Ai could be used to help give Ideas to mathematicians? I've tried searching up ai replacing mathematicians and i only get results of lean which from what i know really only checks if a theorem is right or not. Overall I find the statement that Ai will complete all of the Millennium problems by 2030 to be ridiculous Ai does not seem to be anywhere close to proving some of the most fundamental century old problems in essentially 6 years

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Carlos (No chance) 2 years ago

I believe that even general AI will require a lot of time to reach a level where it can be compared on a full basis to a human in regards to maths.

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Saurabh Sarkar (No chance) 2 years ago

AI was created from Math. Its development is dependent on the development of new Math. It will be next to impossible for AI to develop new functional math.

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James (Uncertain) 3 years ago

Because, AI and supercomputer can overtake the common knowledge

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Jo 3 years ago

If you've ever done college level math and the number of ways you've been told to "Do it by inspection" and the unconventional method that every solution takes, Math is very unlikely to become automated.

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AK (No chance) 3 years ago

Mathematics can go so far, there are literally so infinite possibilities. That may sound extreme but there are so many number systems out there that mathematicians are uncovering everyday as a team and they still can not find all of them. A computer may be faster but since there are so many possibilities both mathematicians and computers must work TOGETHER.

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Alex (Low) 3 years ago

Mathematics requires quite a bit of creativity, which AI is not capable of.

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Faisal Ali Al-Zharani 4 years ago

Mathematicians being replaced by AI technology is not a bad idea. But this still upsets some people. Like me yes I'm a little upset but I don't I'll be thinking about creating jobs for mathematicians that hasn't bee in the (mathematics society) something like a direct career path for full time mathematicians. If is that secondary school teaching alright but not other job opportunities provided for mathematicians. I'm still thinking about the medicine field & how are experts in the field medicine are going to be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) & also occupations like engineers or scientists.

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Mon 1 year ago

Which career is most persistent to be replaced by AI according to you?

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kevin (Low) 5 years ago

Mathematics at its core requires a lot of creativity, something which AI is as of yet not good at. However AI will of course play a big role in defining potential research and we already see AI being used to find interesting mathematical patterns that we as humans have overlooked. It will be an aid to us, at least for the short/medium term.

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seojin (No chance) 5 years ago

well at first you need creativity to think about what should he do,
and AI does not have creativity!
so AI could be assistant not mathematicians.

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