Terence Tao summarized how AI is massively accelerating math career and math research.

"In math， you previously had to basically go through years and years of education to be a math PhD before you could contribute to the frontier of math research. But now it's quite possible at the high school level or whatever， that you could get involved in a math project and actually make a real contribution because of all these AI tools and lean and everything else."

From @dwarkesh_sp podcast （link to full video in comment）