Huang Says Forgotten Math Doesn't Matter - tech
(hx) 11:23 AM CEST - Sep,28 2026
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told The Ezra Klein Show on September 23, 2026 that basic math being forgotten may not matter. He said long division, multiplication tables, and square roots are fading, then added, “Does it matter? I don’t think it does.”
The talk cited a China study of about 26,800 students: AI raised homework scores about 18 percent and cut homework time about 30 percent, while closed-book exam scores fell about 20 percent. Huang also said he does not know his own address, ZIP code, or phone number, and that people will lose some “finer intellectual dexterity” but become better systems
thinkers.
My opinion: If a civilization stops teaching math, it does not get “new skills.” It loses the tool that lets people check a machine when the machine is wrong. Math is how you spot a bad number, a bad model, and a bad bill. A society that outsources every calculation becomes a passenger. When the model fails, the grid flickers, or the score is fake, nobody left can prove it. Total dependence is not progress. It is the point where humans stop being able to govern their own tools!!!
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Updated:11:23 AM CEST Sep,28
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