Richard Borcherds on AI
2 quotes from Richard Borcherds on the wall, 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include VnExpress International – Latest news, business, travel and analysis from Vietnam, Newsweek.
Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework
Richard Borcherds, a Fields Medal-winning mathematics professor at UC Berkeley, told The California Post why he stopped grading homework for accuracy as students increasingly use AI.
There'll be nothing human mathematicians can do that AI can't do better
Richard Borcherds, Fields Medal-winning UC Berkeley mathematics professor, speaking to The Inc. in 2026 about AI's impact on mathematics as a profession.
NewsweekBerkeley Professor Stops Grading Homework Over AI—How Teachers Are Adapting