A Drunk Assistant: Does AI Have a Place in Mathematics? AI can now disprove decades-old conjectures and offer a claimed solution for a $1 million math problem. But in mathematician Terence Tao’s terms, it is still a knowledgeable and slightly drunk assistant. The danger lies not in what AI can do but treating its results like an oracle. Daniel He
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Public Humiliation: Auto-Delivered to Your DMs Is humiliation the new form of online connection? Inside automated DMs, gut indigestion, Instagram influencers, and the art of feeling seen. Kaitlyn Yoon
You Should Waste Your Time Students at SAS are ambitious and focused. However, pursuing our interests outside of the AP guidelines might help us think more creatively to better achieve our academic goals. Elan Wang • Cultural Criticism
Turning the Page on Reading for Fun Around the world, the literacy crisis looms ahead. Forget assigned reading; no one even reads as a pastime anymore. But why on Earth is this crisis affecting everyone I know—including myself? Koel Aggarwal • Cultural Criticism
Photo by Clay Banks / Unsplash My "Why Major" Essay to Harvard What happens when an 87% in AP Chem turns my freshly submitted Harvard application into federal academic fraud? Facing self-imposed ruin, I use PowerSchool hacks and rubber chicken nugget lore to draft an emergency email begging for a pivot to Divinity Studies. Divya Thota • Cultural Criticism
