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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3132 Signatories
  1. Ilir Ziba ORCID PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin
  2. Benjamin Mudrak verified email Purdue University
  3. Charles L. Epstein ORCID Prof. Emeritus Univerity of Pennsylvania
    Comment

    Machine learning will surely change mathematical research, take a look at what it's done to the games of chess and Go. It would be interesting to know how much it costs for a machine to prove a theorem. However, I don't see this as the main problem. Machine learning is a weapon of mass destruction for educating new generations to learn to think for themselves and gain a deep understanding of virtually any subject. I hope that this problem will gain more prominence in the near future.

  4. Samantha Fairchild ORCID Assistant Professor, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  5. Peter van Emde Boas ORCID professor (retired), University of Amsterdam
    Comment

    It is unlikely that I will use AI tools, being over 15 years in retirement. But my younger colleagues should use it in a responsible way.

  6. Souvik Ghosh ORCID PhD, Jadavpur University
    Comment

    I completely agree with Leiden declaration regarding AI on Mathematics. Although I am just a layman in Mathematical research, I suggest that mathematical creativity should be based on human intelligence together with the help of AI. Thanks a lot!

  7. Noah McCollum-Gahley verified email University of Arizona
  8. Erica Johnson Independent Researcher
  9. Dhruv Kulshreshtha verified email PhD Student, University of Wisconsin–Madison
  10. Muhammad Asad Zaighum ORCID Associate Professor, Aktobe Regional State University named after K.Zhubanov
  11. Alberto Merici ORCID Juniorprofessur, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
  12. Daniel Holmes ORCID PhD Student, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
  13. Julian Wykowski ORCID University of Cambridge
  14. Maxim Yattselev ORCID Professor, Indiana University Indianapolis
  15. Tami von Schalscha ORCID University of California, San Diego
  16. Paul Catterson verified email University of Strathclyde
  17. Angeliki Menegaki ORCID Department of Pure Mathematics, Imperial College London
  18. Alice Kessler verified email Ohio State University - Columbus
  19. Keith Burns ORCID Professor, Northwestern Universit
  20. Maria Emilia Caballero verified email Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  21. Erin E. Tripp ORCID Mathematics and Statistics, Hamilton College
  22. Pierre Sutra ORCID Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  23. Amites Sarkar ORCID Professor, Western Washington University
    Comment

    Thank you so much for writing this declaration. It couldn't have come at a better time. Mathematics is an art, not a commodity, and its use in tech company marketing is a cause for concern, not celebration.

  24. Iago Bonnici ORCID Research Engineer, CNRS
  25. Andrew Teschendorff ORCID Professor, Partner Institute for Computational Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society
  26. Yuezhao Li ORCID Postdoctoral researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik
  27. Fabrizio Andreatta verified email University of Milan
  28. Jan Maas ORCID Institute of Science and Technology Austria
  29. Sergei Merenkov ORCID Professor, City College of New York
  30. Jayant Pande ORCID FLAME University, India
  31. Bastian Hilder ORCID Postdoc, Technical University of Munich
  32. John M. Lee ORCID Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
  33. Tomáš Kaiser ORCID Professor, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
  34. iain maitland ORCID Research Software Engineer, Johns Hopkins University Data Science and AI Institute
  35. Margaret A. Readdy, Professor of Mathematics verified email University of Kentucky
  36. NAHUEL ALBARRACIN ORCID Teacher in charge of practical assignments, Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
  37. Deepak Bal ORCID Associate Professor, Montclair State University
  38. Ye-Kai Wang ORCID Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  39. E. Javier Elizondo ORCID Associate professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  40. Alfred Müller ORCID Professor, Universität Siegen
  41. Jasmin Blanchette ORCID Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  42. Ted Theodosopoulos Mathematician and Teacher, Nueva School, San Mateo, CA, USA
    Comment

    Mathematics for me is a uniquely beautiful aspect of the human quest to create meaning. Ultimately, the value of our search for AI derives from what it teaches us about ourselves. This declaration is a very welcome confluence of humans coming together to do what we do best. It represents a great lesson of congruence for our students. It demonstrates how a mathematical mindset can make a positive difference in the world.

  43. Matthias Kreck verified email Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn
    Comment

    I fully agree with the declaration. In my view, this statement can serve only as the prelude to a discussion regarding the role of AI in mathematics—that very discipline which itself counts among the origins of AI. Thus, we bear a share of the responsibility—even if most of us are not directly involved in this research—for a development that could culminate in an act of hubris: the creation of a new "Übermensch." And all of this without any form of democratic oversight. We need a kind of nuclear non-proliferation treaty that prohibits certain developments in AI. It is clear that this will not be easy. Yet this is the only way to ensure that the positive developments enabled by AI can flourish, while the safeguards outlined in the statement—along with further demands—are effectively implemented.

  44. Yousef Abdurahman Aburawi ORCID Assistant Professor, Misurata University
  45. Zhongjian Wang ORCID Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
    Comment

    It’s right the time we need such declaration to protect this field of human knowledge and thoughts.

  46. Stephen Doty ORCID Professor, Loyola University Chicago
  47. Michele Benzi ORCID Professor of Numerical Analysis, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  48. Laura Fredrickson ORCID Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
  49. Cal Peters Sr Design Engineer
  50. David Mehrle ORCID Postdoc, University of Kentucky
  51. Yangzhen Ye ORCID University of Michigan
  52. Cash Bowman ORCID University of California, Los Angeles
  53. Nicola FUSCO ORCID Università di Napoli Federico II
  54. Finn Bartsch ORCID Radboud University Nijmegen
  55. Alfredo Noel Iusem verified email Full Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Matemática Aplicada (EMAp-FGV)
  56. Amanda Beecher ORCID Director of Contests & Outreach, Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications
  57. prakash sellathurai ORCID BE, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology
  58. Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez ORCID Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College
  59. Francisco Serrano ORCID Profesor investigador, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
  60. Zhiwei Yun verified email Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Comment

    As a mathematician, I care not just about the end results, but also the journey that leads to it. AI is destroying my journey.

  61. Mark Hagen ORCID University of Bristol
  62. STEFANO MEDA ORCID Università di Milano-Bicocca
  63. Melissa Zhang ORCID University of California, Davis
  64. Jonas Jansen ORCID Institute for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hohenheim
  65. Bianca Fürstenau verified email University of Groningen
  66. Isnaldo Isaac Barbosa ORCID Professor, Universidade Federal de Alagoas
  67. Alexander Cardona ORCID Universidad de los Andes
  68. Francisco Braun ORCID Professor Associado, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos
  69. Giuseppe Longo ORCID CNRS, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris
  70. Alessandro Saffiotti ORCID Professor, Örebro Universitet
  71. Ashwin Vaidya verified email Montclair State University
    Comment

    Mathematics is a precious human endeavor and should remain so. No matter what advantage this technology offers us, it is important to acknowledge the tremendous negative externalities (human and non-human) of this tool which are quickly overtaking it's purported gains. Mathematics is also an ethical enterprise and should remain so.

  72. Sardar Aqib Mahmood ORCID Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
  73. Haosui Duanmu Harbin Institute of Technology
    Comment

    I hereby support this declaration

  74. Timur Ksianzou verified email Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
  75. Elena Fuchs ORCID University of California, Davis
  76. Nishad Kothari ORCID Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  77. Brendan Sullivan ORCID Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College - Massachusetts
  78. Nhat Hoang Le verified email National University of Singapore
  79. Kelvin D. Meeks Founder, International Technology Ventures, Inc.
  80. Panagiotis L. Kastritis ORCID Professor for Integrative Structural Biochemistry, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  81. Firas Zaier ORCID Doctor of Medicine, Tunis El Manar University
  82. Daniel Coutand verified email Heriot-Watt University
  83. Jacob Pennington ORCID Doctoral student in Mathematics at Washington State University, and Software Engineer at Janelia Research Campus.
  84. Florian Breuer ORCID Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
  85. Maria Paola Bonacina ORCID Professor of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di VERONA
  86. Jorge Gaona ORCID Profesor Asociado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
    Comment

    An important dimension that should not be overlooked is the training of mathematicians and future mathematics teachers in the era of artificial intelligence. This declaration is focused on mathematical research, which is carried out by people who were trained in a very different context from the one in which students are currently being educated.

  87. Giuseppe Dito Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Université Bourgogne Europe
  88. Tamara Kolda ORCID MathSci.ai
    Comment

    This declaration outlines principles for responsible AI use that are essential to preserving the integrity of mathematical research. While AI offers tremendous potential, its misuse will pollute the literature and compromise the foundations on which future mathematical advancements depend. Preserving the field requires mathematicians to engage thoughtfully with this emerging technology.

  89. Soumya Sankar ORCID Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University
  90. Jesus A. De Loera ORCID Professor, University of California
    Comment

    I support this declaration. I would like to stress that while AI can indeed be a useful new tool, the way it is advertised with hype and a misinformation blitz, has negative effect on the teaching and training of students. We can see already students are assuming mathematics is not a reasonable career for them, that mathematics is finished (ironically, the opposite is more likely, as the need for verification grows). At the same time young students are using AI wrong, delegating their thinking to the machines, this will have serious consequences in their training.

  91. Bartosz Bieganowski ORCID University of Warsaw
  92. Steven Groen ORCID University of Amsterdam
  93. Otti D'Huys ORCID Lecturer, Maastricht University
  94. Sreoshi Banerjee ORCID
  95. Eugenio Landi ORCID Postdoc, Università degli Roma La Sapienza
  96. Rui Dilao ORCID Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
  97. Michael Striebel Professor, HTWG Konstanz (University of Applied Sciences), Germany
  98. Mengchang WANG Decision Intelligence Lab @ DAMO Academy, Operations Research/Applied Math
    Comment

    Mathematics is not merely content generation; it is a representation of human intelligence and deserves to be treated with seriousness.

  99. Jan Brandts, Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics verified email University of Amsterdam
  100. Marguerite Hillman verified email National University
    Comment

    As Ronny Xin Yi Chieng said re AI's impact in his Harvard graduates speech: “Our generation’s upcoming battle…is going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge, it’s going to be mastery versus faking it, it’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”