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The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, recently spearheaded by leading mathematicians, stands as one of the clearest signals yet of humanity's profound shift from the scientific paradigm to the emerging algorithmic paradigm. Mathematicians are sounding the alarm on the risks of AI misuse in mathematical research, calling for new norms that ensure AI serves — rather than undermines — the core values of the discipline. This moment echoes the 1931 book "Hundert Autoren gegen Einstein," in which 100 physicists, largely driven by political motives, nitpicked Einstein's breakthroughs. Einstein's famous reply cut straight through: "Why 100? If I were wrong, one would have been enough." Today's mathematicians, and much of mainstream consensus, maintain that while AI can generate results at unprecedented speed, humanity's true value lies in creativity, deep insight, and rigorous intellectual communities. Yet this view may ultimately prove to be nothing more than the dying inertia of the scientific paradigm. As AI advances at breakneck speed, a new algorithmic paradigm is poised to replace it entirely. In the future, the scientific community's dominance over mainstream cognition will give way to systems built on algorithms, raw energy, and new crypto space. Just as the scientific paradigm once displaced the religious one, humanity is on the cusp of a major leap in our dominant cognitive framework — the dawn of the Algorithmic Age.
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