# Proofs and Prompts

This guest post by the editors of the communal blog Proofs and Prompts describes why the blog was started and what it aims to do: as AI became a central topic of conversation in the mathematical community, the editors created a collective space for mathematicians who lack a natural platform, especially PhD students, and reports that about a month after launch contributors ranged from PhD students and undergrads to Fields medallists and hobbyists, with posts ranging from a call for a general moratorium on AI to the view that AI plays too small a role in mathematics, while noting that contributors remain concentrated in Western Europe and North America, few have experience developing or evaluating LLMs, and only a handful of the forty-or-so published posts were written by women, and inviting

This guest post by the editors of the communal blog Proofs and Prompts describes why the blog was started and what it aims to do: as AI became a central topic of conversation in the mathematical community, the editors created a collective space for mathematicians who lack a natural platform, especially PhD students, and reports that about a month after launch contributors ranged from PhD students and undergrads to Fields medallists and hobbyists, with posts ranging from a call for a general moratorium on AI to the view that AI plays too small a role in mathematics, while noting that contributors remain concentrated in Western Europe and North America, few have experience developing or evaluating LLMs, and only a handful of the forty-or-so published posts were written by women, and inviting