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. Mickaël Matusinski ORCID Maître de Conférence, Université de Bordeaux
  2. Massimo Ferri ORCID Professore dell'Alma Mater, Università degli Studi di Bologna
  3. Li Shen verified email Imperial College London
  4. Thomas Bothner ORCID Associate Professor in Mathematical Physics, University of Bristol
    Comment

    A very timely and thought-out response to the ultra-fast entry of AI into mathematical research. Let's hope the benefits of AI will outweigh its harmful potential. This, however, will not come for free and it will require good practice from all involved, in the way the Leiden declaration suggests.

  5. Mario Mascolo verified email University of Padua
  6. Vincent Beffara ORCID DR, CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes
  7. Alfonso Zamora Saiz ORCID Matemáticas Aplicadas a las TIC, Technical University of Madrid
  8. Jerónimo García-Mejía ORCID Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick
  9. Manan Jain IISER Mohali
    Comment

    The global south remains underrepresented on frontiers of mathematical research, in no small part due to lack of access to opportunities and resources. Any advantages, real or perceived, emerging from artificial intelligence propelled by profit-driven corporations is likely to widen this divide further. It is imperative to have serious conversations on their use and promotion, keeping (amongst many other things) this access disparity in mind.

  10. Hicham Yamoul ORCID Associate Professor, Université Hassan II de Casablanca, École Normale Supérieure
  11. Andrea Gallese ORCID Ph.D. student, Scuola Normale Superiore
  12. Simão Santos Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon
  13. Stefan Vasilev verified Philipps-Universität Marburg
  14. Jean Lécureux ORCID Professor, Université de Bordeaux
  15. Herman Geuvers ORCID Professor Radboud University Nijmegen
  16. Raphaël Beuzart-Plessis verified email CNRS, Université d'Aix-Marseille
  17. Tobias Schnieders ORCID PhD student, Saarland University
  18. Maria Leonor Moreira verified email Universidade do Porto
  19. Aymeric Martin ORCID Université de Bordeaux
  20. Kaplan Desbouis ORCID Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
  21. Peter van der Kamp ORCID Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University, Melbourne
  22. Susheel Varma ORCID Chief Data Officer, Sage Bionetworks
    Comment

    I am pleased to support the Leiden Declaration. AI can assist mathematical research, but it must be governed by the values that sustain the discipline: rigor, transparency, attribution, open scrutiny, and human responsibility. Mathematics should remain a human practice guided by understanding, judgment, and ethical care.

  23. Daniel Dadush ORCID CWI & Utrecht University
  24. Fabrice Wunderlich verified email University of Luxemburg
  25. Edmund Harriss ORCID Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
    Comment

    There are exciting potentials in the technical ability of AI, but more concerning cultural and social issues. A broader discussion about what is important in mathematics (built off proof not simply proofs) is needed and this document is a powerful statement of that.

  26. Kathryn Lund ORCID Senior Computational Mathematician, Science and Technology Facilities Council
    Comment

    I wholeheartedly endorse the statements these fellow researchers have carefully prepared. I would also like to highlight that unbridled AI has and will continue to harm marginalized groups more than those who hold power in society. It's easy as mathematicians to disconnect from society at large and retreat to our nifty problems. I hope this declaration and others help rouse the community from its complacency to defend those who don't have a voice and make space for them.

  27. Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg ORCID Assistant professor, University of Twente
  28. Andreas Schaefer ORCID Université Grenoble Alpes
  29. Peter Lammich ORCID Assistant professor, University of Twente
  30. Johannes Wiesel ORCID Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen
  31. Jöran Lennart Bergh ORCID emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Gothenburg
  32. Catharina Stroppel ORCID Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics Bonn
    Comment

    This is a thoughtful and well-considered statement on a difficult and very important topic. I am very happy that it has appeared! AI is clearly changing our world and in particular prompting us to reaffirm the basic principles of mathematics. I believe AI can help and guide us in many ways, even in doing research-level mathematics. On the other hand, I am convinced that the classical mathematical argumentation plays thereby a crucial, even an essential role. I wish that we are able to figure out a good way how to place AI on top of a solid and honest mathematical education, one in which precision, intellectual honesty and critical thinking matters more than ever. This declaration is in my opinion an important step towards finding such a good way.

  33. Maryna Viazovska verified email EPFL - EPF Lausanne
  34. Igor Böhm ORCID Fellow Engineer at GlobalFoundres; PhD, The University of Edinburgh
  35. Xavier Guitart ORCID Universitat de Barcelona
  36. Karin Melnick ORCID Full Professor, University of Luxembourg
  37. Annette Huber-Klawitter ORCID Professor, University of Freiburg
  38. Álvaro Gutiérrez ORCID The University of Bristol
    Comment

    Free and open science is always worth fighting for. We, as a community, can't allow to let the power of discovery and research be available to only a few. We must ensure that the changes machine learning brings to our field are as open source and equitable as possible.

  39. Michael Lee verified email University of Queensland
  40. Ulrich Görtz ORCID Professor, Universität Duisburg-Essen
  41. David Schwein ORCID Assistant Professor, University of Utah
  42. Víctor González-Alonso ORCID Leibniz Universität Hannover
  43. Minh Pham verified email University of Queensland
  44. Christian Urech ORCID Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich
  45. Ruizhe Xue verified email Nanjing University
  46. Gustavo Jasso ORCID Professor, University of Cologne
  47. Jiandong Yuan ORCID undergraduate, Shenzhen University
    Comment

    Math is treasure of people

  48. Nathaël Da Costa ORCID PhD student, University of Tübingen
  49. Otto Theodor Primus Schmidt ORCID Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    Comment

    Very important document to make discussion about AI broader.

  50. Clément Mouhot ORCID DPMMS, University of Cambridge
  51. Siegfried Echterhoff ORCID Professor emeritus, University of Münster
  52. Ulrike Muller ORCID Professor, California State University Fresno
  53. Roger Samelson ORCID Professor, Oregon State University
  54. Maurice Duits ORCID KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  55. Joaquim Ignatious Monteiro ORCID Assistant Professor, College of Engineering Trivandrum
  56. Atiksh Gupta ORCID Student, Brown University
  57. Dan Guyer verified email PhD Candidate in Mathematics, University of Washington
  58. Zeyu Guo ORCID Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
  59. Saivenkat Senthilkumar verified email Université Laval
  60. Felix Scott verified email University of Queensland
  61. Ramiro Lafuente ORCID The University of Queensland
  62. Tirthankar Bhattacharyya ORCID Professor, Indian Institute of Science
  63. Charlie ORCID The University of Queensland
  64. Rhea Wolski verified email University of Queensland
  65. Professor Masoud Kamgarpour verified email University of Queensland
    Comment

    Excellent document summarising some of the key challenges of AI.

  66. Yi Lu ORCID Lecturer, Nanjing Audit University
  67. Pietro Monticone Harmonic
  68. Saverio Spagnolie verified email University of Wisconsin - Madison
  69. Hans-Martin Will ORCID ACM
  70. William Martin ORCID Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Comment

    I fully endorse this declaration and I thank the working group for so carefully developing the elements therein. Mathematics is a human creation and should be for the benefit of humans. We who are fortunate should prioritize the well-being of the less fortunate in the world.

  71. Sohan Ghosh ORCID Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
  72. Ashutosh Roy Choudhury ORCID Graduate Student, Boston University
  73. Sangeet Srinivasan, M.Sc. Rishi Valley Education Center, Krishnamurti Foundation India. Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy, Universität zu Köln. Shiv Nadar University, Institute of Eminence.
    Comment

    Usage of AI needs a regulation like this across all fields so that research and education can adapt and grow alongside it as opposed to being usurped from its role in society in favour of the interests of corporate elites.

  74. Steven L Kleiman ORCID Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, MIT
  75. Anindya Goswami ORCID Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education Research Pune
  76. Kai Behrend ORCID Professor, University of British Columbia
  77. Emilio Dominguez ORCID PhD student, UMD
  78. Paul Mansanarez verified email Université Libre de Bruxelles
  79. Andrew Berget ORCID Western Washington University
  80. Jonas Kew verified email University of Wollongong
  81. Nikita Grygoryev ORCID PhD student, Perimeter Institute
  82. Alexandre L Madureira ORCID Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica
  83. Yu Chung Hung ORCID PhD student, Texas A&M University
  84. Eduardo G. Altmann ORCID Professor, The University of Sydney
  85. Seung-Hyun Nam ORCID Post-Doctoral Researcher, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  86. Ruida Di ORCID Postdoc, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  87. Tom Marley ORCID University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  88. Anthony Kelly ORCID University of Southampton
  89. Alain Damlamian ORCID UPEC (Université Paris-Est Créteil)
  90. Josh Cork ORCID Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Leicester
  91. Rossignol Dieudonné ORCID Master of Arts, Logic, University of Gothenburg
  92. Ricardo Weder ORCID Professor. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  93. Cristopher Moore ORCID Professor, Santa Fe Institute (and AMS Fellow)
    Comment

    This declaration is excellent and timely. Our goal as mathematicians is not merely to obtain "results": it is to broaden and deepen human understanding of mathematics. As in other domains like health, education, and the legal system, AI use must be transparent and should not undermine humans' responsibility to be truthful, open, and ethical.

  94. Zeyu Zeng ORCID University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  95. Johan Martens ORCID School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
  96. Ben McKeon ORCID PhD, University of Limerick
  97. Nick Chapman ORCID PhD Student, TU Wien, Austria
  98. Isaiah Lee verified email Purdue University
  99. Reni Banov ORCID Senior Lecturer, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences
  100. Nikolaos Dimitropoulos verified email University of Athens, Philosophy - University of Thessaloniki, Mathematics