If a non-expert—say, just a high school or college student working in their spare time—uses AI to solve a famous, long-standing math problem, this could become a landmark moment in history. It would be akin to Copernicus overturning the dominant religious worldview of his era, where the Church and its doctrines defined mainstream understanding, backed by the prevailing productivity and power structures of the time. Today, something similar is happening—or is about to happen. The centuries-old paradigm in which the scientific community has served as the primary gatekeeper and shaper of human knowledge may be on the verge of disruption. In the near future, scientists could find themselves in a position much like the religious authorities of the past: guardians of an established order whose monopoly on shaping mainstream cognition is about to be replaced. This time, the disruptor is AI.

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