Comment by joe_the_user

The debate on the funds of scholarship and education has been between democratic vision of "an informed citizenry" versus the technocratic vision of education for jobs and technical progress. Both of those might be "power" (Foucault said "everything is power" and if so, it tells us nothing). Thus I don't think your particular framing is useful.

For many who pursue mathematics, it is a refuge from ordinary life (or normal "power"). Within mathematics, there has historically been a tension between the "Babylonian" model of pure calculation and the "Greek" model of advancement through understanding. If current AI models subsume mathematics entirely, the Babylonian model will have "won" and the possibility of an informed citizenry will be in doubt.