What type of mathematician are you?

Quiz made by Claude Fable 5.1 to accompany Math for AI Safety: An invitation for mathematicians, by Lionel Levine.

Axis 1: Artisanal to industrial

It is 9 a.m. You have a lemma you believe but cannot prove. Where does it go?
Which sentence could appear in your next acknowledgments?
A student asks whether they may use AI on the problem set. You say:
A journal sends you a 100-page paper to referee. The acknowledgments thank an AI for everything after the introduction. You:
An AI proves the conjecture you have thought about for years. Your first feeling?

Axis 2: Personal to civic

Which line moves you most?
Your seatmate on the plane asks what you do. You say:
A proof works out at 2 a.m. Who do you tell?
A friend asks: work on the problem I love, or the one that matters more for the world? You say:
Which line would you want in your obituary?

About the axes

The horizontal axis is how much technology is in your mathematical workflow: from mathematics by hand, for and by humans, to AI as a collaborator and accelerant. The vertical axis is how large a community motivates you: from your own curiosity, through collaborators and students, a field, all of science, to humanity and the planet.

The stances come from the survey Math for AI Safety: An invitation for mathematicians, which invites mathematicians to try the civic one and offers open problems to start on.

If you tick the box under your result, your ten answers and your coordinates are recorded, with no name, address, or other identifying information, for a heatmap of where mathematicians land. A quick human check keeps bots off the map.

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