Perhaps all these fields medalists are just worried that AI mitigates their competitive advantages over a mediocre professional mathematician like me. Their main advantages are a kind of penetrating clear thinking that not all of us have and an ability to work obsessively without tiring or losing focus while retaining with a clear head a great number of facts - AI removed these advantages - as Tao has written it shifts the focus to asking good questions and using available tools to address them - and the traditional elite may not be better than I am at that part - they were just better at the solving the problems part ...