AI's impact on mathematics is analogous to the car's impact on cities

Terence Tao (Fields Medal mathematician) argues that AI's effect on mathematics is structural rather than merely additive — analogous to how cars didn't just speed up travel but fundamentally redesigned cities. The implication is that AI won't just accelerate proof-writing or literature search, but will reshape how mathematics is organized, discovered, and taught. The article text was inaccessible (requires JavaScript), but the analogy is a sharp framing for thinking about AI as a domain-restructuring force, relevant for engineers reasoning about AI's long-term impact on their own craft.