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AI is coming for your job. We've all heard that one by now, as large language models get smarter and seemingly more capable by the week. But one profession you might not have expected to be pondering that question quite so soon is mathematics. Long seen as one of the great frontiers of human intelligence, maths is now becoming a testing ground for just how far AI can go. It seems like every week there's another headline about AI cracking an unsolved problem, finding a new proof . . . doing in hours what might have taken mathematicians months or even years. So if the machines are getting really good at maths, what does that mean for the humans who do it? Melissa Lee is a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics at Monash University, and she's been fascinated by exactly that question.