Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

Signatories

The primary signatory list now lives on the homepage below the declaration text.

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3125 Signatories
  1. Giovanni Canestrari verified email University of Toronto
  2. Carlo Gasbarri verified email Université de Strasbourg
  3. Keerthi Madapusi ORCID Boston College
  4. David Fisac ORCID CNRS Postdoctoral Researcher, Université Paris-Est Créteil
  5. Danai Deligeorgaki ORCID Universitat de Barcelona
  6. Harun Kir ORCID ENS de LYON
  7. Bruno Klingler ORCID Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  8. Verónica Becher ORCID CONICET
  9. Carlos Florentino ORCID Full Professor, Faculdade Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
  10. Chen BingKuan Student in Mathematics
    Comment

    As a math student looking to join research in the future, I hereby sign this declaration. I hope human mathematicians will be credited fairly and that math research do not become an antomated process running in the background of a privately owned ai facility.

  11. Ethan Harr verified email Purdue University
  12. Jordan Ellenberg ORCID University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Comment

    The declaration represents a clear statement of principles that I hope almost all mathematicians can join in endorsing. Many mathematicians, myself among them, are optimistic about the role artificial intelligence will play in mathematics research. But optimism is no reason to ignore potential negative consequences of these developments. Most importantly, we mustn't lose sight of our fundamental goal, which is to enlarge and enrich human understanding of the mathematical universe.  Our community, over many hundreds of years of working together, has developed a rough consensus about what it is we are actually trying to do. We don't spend much time explicitly talking about these values; now is the time to do so.

  13. Rosalie Iemhoff ORCID Universiteit Utrecht
  14. Chirantan Chowdhury ORCID Post Doc TU Darmstadt
    Comment

    A must-need action at the right time.

  15. Andreas Vermeiren ORCID KU Leuven
  16. Jürgen Fuß ORCID Hagenberg Campus, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
  17. Dimitrios Konstantinidis ORCID PhD candidate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  18. Frederic Rochon ORCID UQAM
  19. Flavia Bonomo ORCID Universidad de Buenos Aires
  20. Matt Larson ORCID Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study
  21. Marc Lelarge ORCID Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
  22. Yeongrak Kim ORCID Pusan National University
  23. Renpeng Zheng ORCID PhD Pure Mathematics, University of Nottingham
  24. Antoine Etesse verified email Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
  25. Dario Gasbarra ORCID University of Vaasa Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  26. Benson Farb ORCID Ann Gillian Sheldon Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago
  27. Fabio Durastante ORCID Associate Professor, Università di Pisa
  28. Federico Caucci ORCID Sapienza University of Rome
  29. Hsueh-Yung Lin ORCID National Taiwan University
  30. Damiano Manzini Université Paris Cité
  31. Jill Pipher verified email Brown University
  32. Xianyu Hu verified email Technische Universität München
  33. Jared T White verified email Open University
  34. Guillaume PIGNON-YWANNE ORCID UMPA
  35. Claudio Onorati ORCID Tenure-track assistant professor, University of Calabria
  36. David Aspinall ORCID Professor, The University of Edinburgh
  37. Zixi Wang University of California, Santa Barbara
  38. Arnaud Beauville ORCID Université Côte d'Azur
  39. Carlos E. Ferro FCEyN, UBA (Argentina)
  40. Bart van schie ORCID Delft Food Science
  41. Roland Bauerschmidt ORCID Professor of Mathematics, New York University
  42. Manfred Sauter ORCID Lecturer, Ulm University
  43. Marco Fava ORCID Research fellow, University of Warwick
  44. Matteo Galbiati verified email University of Milan
  45. Tijs Buggenhout ORCID PhD student, KU Leuven
  46. Maria João Oliveira Universidade Aberta, Portugal
  47. Guillermo Gamarra Segovia
  48. PEDRO TRADACETE ORCID Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
    Comment

    Given the current state of AI use in mathematics, with certain AI developers suggesting that mathematicians could be replaced, apparently with the sole aim of attracting public attention and raising funds, I feel an urgent need for the mathematical community to unite and give a clear response about what we believe mathematics should be and why we care about it. AI can certainly be a powerful tool, capable of assisting professional mathematicians and mathematics students with many tasks. But there are also serious risks that must be clearly identified and addressed if we are to avoid harming our community and our shared endeavor. This declaration is a fantastic step in that direction.

  49. Riccardo SALVATI MANNI ORCID Full Professor, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
  50. Yunfeng Zhang verified email University of Cincinnati
  51. Matthias Schütt ORCID Leibniz University Hannover
  52. Mathias Schacht ORCID Professor, Universität Hamburg
  53. Yifei Zhao ORCID University of Münster
    Comment

    Big AI is trying to monopolize math research. We cannot let this happen!

  54. ANGELO VISTOLI ORCID Full Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore
  55. Ning Ma verified email Postdoc at Purdue University
  56. Matthias Paulsen ÉNS Paris
  57. François Bouchut ORCID Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  58. Yusen Long ORCID LAMA, Université Paris-Est Créteil
  59. Damiano Testa ORCID Mathematics, University of Warwick
  60. Lorenzo De Biase ORCID Researcher, ENEA Bologna Research Centre
  61. Emma Hearnden verified email Canterbury Christ Church University
  62. Roger Picken ORCID Dept. of Mathematics; Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (retired)
  63. Timothy Logvinenko ORCID Reader, Cardiff University
    Comment

    A well-thought declaration coming at the right time.

  64. Hannah Dell ORCID Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bonn
  65. John McCleary ORCID Professor of Mathematics, Vassar College
  66. Giuseppe Lamberti ORCID ATER, Université de Bordeaux
  67. Francesco Sorce verified email University of Pisa
    Comment

    I am about to start a PhD position. I fear that the rampant use of AI might hinder me in acquiring and consolidating the skills needed for research. For example I will probably need to spend more time worrying about the correctness (mathematical or otherwise) of preprints (if not articles) instead of understanding the mathematics itself. As a developing researcher I dead the thought of studying deeply and carefully a paper only to realize suddenly (hopefully by myself) that the result was just plausible but nonsense. This seems like a waste of time and resources that would be better spent learning and doing actual mathematics. On top of this, the already competitive and precarious position researchers are put in will become even more unwelcoming soon unless the use of AI becomes severely moderated and/or massively democratized (as in, the most powerful models cannot be accessible only to the richest institutions). I also fear that AI will accelerate the already real and saddening trend where mathematics is become more and more slave to monetary interests. Positions dedicated to the development of and research in AI already are massively overrepresented compared to other fields in mathematics.

  68. Thomas Richard verified email Université Paris Est Créteil
  69. Florian Schreier-Aigner ORCID University of Vienna
  70. Andreas Rößler ORCID Professor, Universität zu Lübeck
  71. Swann Tubach ORCID verified Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu
  72. Aurélien Faucher ORCID PhD Student, Université de Lorraine
  73. Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz ORCID Scientist, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
  74. Alex Hof ORCID Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
  75. Julian Feuerpfeil ORCID PhD-student, UniMiB and UMLP
  76. Maria Alberich-Carramiñana ORCID Full Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  77. Michele Bolognesi ORCID Université Grenoble Alpes
  78. Benjamin Smith ORCID Inria and École polytechnique
  79. Aida Maraj Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
  80. Yanyang Li ORCID Southeast University
  81. Guadalupe Cabañas-Sánchez ORCID Profesora-Investigadora, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero
  82. David Constantine ORCID Associate Professor, Wesleyan University
  83. Dr Colin D Wright Maths Communicator
    Comment

    We can all see the potential harms, and potential benefits that the emerging technology provides and promises. I believe this document provides an excellent balance of proposals for minimising the harms and maximising the benefits.

  84. Keti Tenenblat ORCID Professor emeritus, Universidade de Brasilia
  85. Théo Belin ORCID Postdoctoral researcher, Lund University
  86. Zipeng Wang Westlake University
    Comment

    We never, never, never surrender our free will to AI.

  87. Francesca Tombari ORCID KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  88. Valentin Deaconu verified email University of Nevada, Reno
  89. Keivan Mallahi-Karai
  90. Yuri Santos Rego ORCID University of Lincoln
  91. Jinoh Kang ORCID College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  92. Yusif Aliyev Computer Science, Bachelor's student, Azerbaijan Technical University
  93. Henry Adorna ORCID Department of Computer Science, University of the Philippines
  94. Ben Moonen ORCID Radboud University Nijmegen
  95. Naná Giadresco verified email Utrecht University
  96. Tristan van der Vlugt ORCID Project assistant (FWF), TU Wien
  97. Rachel Greenfeld ORCID Northwestern University
  98. Gilbert Peralta ORCID Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Philippines Baguio
  99. Marek Michalewicz ORCID CEO, Siranga Sp. z o.o.
  100. Ziad Badehian ORCID Central Tehran university