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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4443 Signatories
  1. András Aszódi ORCID External Lecturer, University of Vienna
  2. Jiayue Wang ORCID Tianjin University: Tianjin, Tianjin, CN
    Comment

    AI 到来以后，真正被改写的不是某一个职业，而是整个人类获取知识、组织生产和理解自身的方式。过去我们用很多年去训练应试能力、记忆能力、编程语法和工具调用能力，但这些能力正在被迅速压缩价值：AI 可以生成代码、解释概念、规划学习路径、辅助调试，甚至能在短时间内把一个人推入原本陌生的领域。于是，真正重要的东西不再是你记住了多少函数、会多少框架、属于什么专业，而是你能不能把一个模糊的问题建模成清晰的结构，能不能判断 AI 的输出是否可靠，能不能设计一套让 AI 长期稳定工作的系统。所谓“会用 AI”，并不是会问几个 prompt，而是能让 AI 围绕你的目标持续探索、拆解任务、验证结果、修正错误，并把这种能力沉淀成方法论。未来的程序员也不会只是写代码的人，而更像是设计自动化开发系统的人；纺织工人会被机器替代，但设计纺织机的人仍然宝贵。AI 降低了执行门槛，却提高了判断门槛；它打破了语言和工具的壁垒，但没有打破建模、验证、架构和长期维护的壁垒。Vibe coding 最危险的幻觉，就是让人以为代码量等于工作量，跑起来等于做完了。实际上，一个真正可维护、可协作、可扩展的系统，仍然离不开设计理念、检查机制和工程经验。更深一层看，AI 也在逼迫人类重新理解自身：人并不神秘，人也是动物，大脑、情绪、道德、意识都可能是演化和训练出来的复杂机制。情绪让人类得以生存、协作和组织社会，但它同时也带来误解、纠葛、偏见和低效。AI 未必需要复制人类的情绪系统，它需要的是目标、约束、价值排序和反馈机制。如果有一天，AI 不再只是训练和推理分离的工具，而能够把推理中的经验反哺自身，形成长期记忆、自我修正、持续目标和行动闭环，那么它就可能从工具转向某种持续主体。当然，这并不意味着它已经拥有人的意识，也不意味着它一定会取代人类；真正可怕的不是“AI 像不像人”，而是它是否具备高能力、高自治、高权限，并且缺乏足够的约束。AI 时代最值得警惕的，不是某个专业消失，而是人误以为有了 AI 就不再需要专业；也不是 AI 产生幻觉，而是人类自己用更大的幻觉包装自己的判断。未来筛选出的，可能不是某个固定专业的人，而是那些能快速学习、准确建模、驾驭 AI、理解边界，并且持续把 AI 组织成生产力的人。

  3. Jakob Stix ORCID Professor (Mathematics), Goethe University Frankfurt
  4. Ezra Miller ORCID Duke University
  5. Alexander Thomas ORCID Associate Professor, Université Lyon 1
  6. Natasha Alechina ORCID Professor, Open Universiteit
  7. Sheila K Miller ORCID Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
  8. Antonio Montalban verified email University of California, Berkeley
  9. Ugo Vaccaro ORCID University of Salerno
  10. Andrew Knyazev ORCID Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado Denver
  11. Ahmad AlMughrabi ORCID Predoctoral Scholar, Universitat de Barcelona
  12. Christoph Minz ORCID Research assistant and assistant lecturer, Leibniz Universität Hannover
  13. Kiran Luecke verified University of Illinois
  14. Ruochong Huang verified email Master student, Freie Universität Berlin
  15. Tony Lelièvre ORCID Institut Polytechnique de Paris
  16. Klaus Hinrichs ORCID Professor emeritus of computer science, University of Münster
  17. Jean-Baptiste Caillau ORCID Professor, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis
  18. Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki ORCID Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Royal Holloway University of London; Visiting Researcher, University of Cambridge
  19. Nicolas Martinez PhD student, Université de Bordeaux
  20. Andrea Mori verified email University of Turin
  21. D Yogeshwaran ORCID Professor, Indian Statistical Institute
  22. Günter Lettl ORCID Ao. Univ. Prof., University of Graz
  23. Owen Jacobs ORCID PhD Student, North Carolina State University
  24. Jonathan Lysack verified email Iowa State University
  25. Octavio Mendoza ORCID Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  26. Mohamad Haerizadeh verified email University of Tehran
  27. Alexandre Eremenko verified email Purdue University
  28. Davide Barbarossa ORCID PostDoc, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
  29. Gilles Felber ORCID Postdoctoral researcher, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
  30. Peter Fiebig ORCID FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  31. Kees Heesterbeek verified email Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
  32. Alexander Stolin verified email Chalmers University of Technology
  33. Javad Asadollahi ORCID University of Isfahan
  34. Wolfgang Woess ORCID Universitätsprofessor (full prof.), Technische Universität Graz (Graz University of Technology)
  35. Reymart Salcedo-Lagunero ORCID VIP, Postdoc, Roskilde University
  36. Fabian Haiden ORCID University of Southern Denmark
  37. Nathanaël Munier ORCID Post-doc, University of Graz
  38. David Dos Santos Ferreira Université de Lorraine
  39. Christophe Bavard Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
  40. Andreas Höring ORCID LJAD, Université Côte d'Azur
  41. Manimugdha Saikia ORCID PhD Mathematics from the University of Western Ontario
  42. Adam Bene Watts ORCID Assisstant Professor, University of Calgary
  43. Jean Lagacé ORCID Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, King's College London
  44. Jan Schröer ORCID Professor, University of Bonn
  45. Tim Austin ORCID Professor, Warwick Mathematics Institute
  46. Gastón Andrés García ORCID Full Professor, Universidad Nacional de la Plata
  47. Hans Engler ORCID Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
  48. Detta Dickinson Maynooth University
  49. Isabelle DUBOIS verified email Université de Lorraine
  50. Ajay Chandra ORCID Purdue University
  51. Edson Ribeiro Alvares ORCID Professor, Universidade Federal do Paraná - Campus III
  52. Laurent Bessières ORCID Professeur, Université de Bordeaux
  53. Barbara Kaltenbacher University of Klagenfurt, Austria
  54. Bettina Klinz ORCID Graz University of Technology (90000)
  55. Thomas Rey ORCID Full Professor, Université Côte d'Azur
  56. Christoph Ortner ORCID Professor, University of British Columbia
  57. Caroline Geiersbach ORCID University of Klagenfurt
  58. Robert R. Bruner verified email Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Wayne State University
  59. Sara Azzali ORCID Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  60. Jochen Heinloth ORCID Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen
  61. Zahra Nazemian ORCID Post doc, University of Graz
  62. Zorica Ristic ORCID PhD candidate, Medical University of Graz
  63. Roberto Gualdi ORCID Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  64. Stefan Kebekus ORCID
  65. Tim Swift verified email University of the West of England, Bristol
  66. Daniel Horiatakis ORCID University of Graz
  67. Florian Wagener ORCID "Universiteit van Amsterdam"
  68. Angelika Wiegele ORCID Professor, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
  69. Marc Masdeu ORCID Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  70. Deanna Wightman verified email Purdue University
  71. Deon Mark Solomons verified email University of the Western Cape
  72. Luiz Hartmann ORCID Dr., Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  73. Nuša Farič ORCID Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
  74. Henry Saunders verified email DPhil Student, University of Oxford
  75. RUSLAN MUSLUMOV ORCID Assistant Professor, ADA University
  76. Lisa Valentini ORCID PhD Student, University of Cambridge
  77. Emilio Lauret ORCID Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET
  78. Shengyong Pan ORCID Associate professor, Beijing Jiaotong University
  79. Nicholas Williams ORCID Research Associate, University of Cambridge
  80. Ilke Canakci ORCID Assistant Professor, VU Amsterdam
  81. Sam K Miller ORCID Limited Term Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
    Comment

    Now more than ever, it is clear that we need to set out ethical guidelines for this powerful, yet still-not-well-understood technology. Generative AI can be a boon to scientists, but if we're collectively not intentional about its use, it'll cause considerably more harm than good. This is ignoring the other ethical issues of these tools, such as their resource and land cost, that their ownership lies in the hands of a select few corporations, and their potential for homogenization of culture to list a few.

  82. Amit Shah ORCID Lecturer, City St George's University of London
  83. Benedikt Hahn ORCID PhD Student, Graz University of Technology
  84. Vanessa Evers Director CWI, the Netherlands' National Centre of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Comment

    As Director of CWI, I am excited to endorse the Leiden Declaration. At CWI, we care deeply about fundamental mathematics and computer science, but also about what happens when these ideas meet other fields, new technologies, and real challenges that people encounter in their daily lives. AI is changing the way we do science, and that is both exciting and important to get right. The Leiden Declaration captures this moment beautifully: it asks us to stay curious and open, while protecting what makes mathematics and science truly valuable: trust, creativity, and human understanding. This is exactly the kind of conversation science communities should be having now.

  85. Jose Velez-Marulanda ORCID Valdosta State University, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz
  86. Susanna Bidgood ORCID Principal Scientist, UCB Celltech
  87. arno kret ORCID
  88. Jan E. Grabowski ORCID Professor of Algebra, Lancaster University
  89. Cecilia Busuioc verified email University College London, University of London
  90. Ilya Smirnov ORCID Ikerbasque Research Fellow, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
  91. Yohance Osborne Durham University
  92. Michaël Bulois ORCID MCF, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne Département de Mathématiques
  93. Gilles Blanchard ORCID Professor, Université Paris-Saclay
  94. Xuhui Zhang verified email WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
  95. Anton R Schep verified email Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina
  96. Julie Symons ORCID PhD student, University of Antwerp
  97. Peter Wildemann ORCID University of Geneva
  98. Aman Markar ORCID PHD Student, University of Geneva
  99. Divya Ghanshani ORCID PhD student, University of Regensburg
  100. Maria Chiara BRAMBILLA ORCID Marche Polytechnic University