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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4181 Signatories
  1. Andre Institut de mathématiques de Bordeaux
  2. Mathias Schacht ORCID Professor, Universität Hamburg
  3. Yifei Zhao ORCID University of Münster
    Comment

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

  4. ANGELO VISTOLI ORCID Full Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore
  5. Ning Ma verified email Postdoc at Purdue University
  6. Matthias Paulsen ÉNS Paris
  7. François Bouchut ORCID Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  8. Yusen Long ORCID LAMA, Université Paris-Est Créteil
  9. Damiano Testa ORCID Mathematics, University of Warwick
  10. Lorenzo De Biase ORCID Researcher, ENEA Bologna Research Centre
  11. Emma Hearnden verified email Canterbury Christ Church University
  12. Roger Picken ORCID Dept. of Mathematics; Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (retired)
  13. Timothy Logvinenko ORCID Reader, Cardiff University
    Comment

    A well-thought declaration coming at the right time.

  14. Hannah Dell ORCID Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Bonn
  15. John McCleary ORCID Professor of Mathematics, Vassar College
  16. Giuseppe Lamberti ORCID ATER, Université de Bordeaux
  17. 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.

  18. Thomas Richard verified email Université Paris Est Créteil
  19. Florian Schreier-Aigner ORCID University of Vienna
  20. Andreas Rößler ORCID Professor, Universität zu Lübeck
  21. Swann Tubach ORCID verified Institut Mathématiques de Jussieu
  22. Aurélien Faucher ORCID PhD Student, Université de Lorraine
  23. Maxence Azzouz-Thuderoz ORCID Scientist, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
  24. Alex Hof ORCID Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
  25. Julian Feuerpfeil ORCID PhD-student, UniMiB and UMLP
  26. Maria Alberich-Carramiñana ORCID Full Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  27. Michele Bolognesi ORCID Université Grenoble Alpes
  28. Benjamin Smith ORCID Inria and École polytechnique
  29. Aida Maraj Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
  30. Yanyang Li ORCID Southeast University
  31. Guadalupe Cabañas-Sánchez ORCID Profesora-Investigadora, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero
  32. David Constantine ORCID Associate Professor, Wesleyan University
  33. 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.

  34. Keti Tenenblat ORCID Professor emeritus, Universidade de Brasilia
  35. Théo Belin ORCID Postdoctoral researcher, Lund University
  36. Zipeng Wang Westlake University
    Comment

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

  37. Francesca Tombari ORCID KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  38. Valentin Deaconu verified email University of Nevada, Reno
  39. Keivan Mallahi-Karai
  40. Yuri Santos Rego ORCID University of Lincoln
  41. Jinoh Kang ORCID College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  42. Yusif Aliyev Computer Science, Bachelor's student, Azerbaijan Technical University
  43. Henry Adorna ORCID Department of Computer Science, University of the Philippines
  44. Ben Moonen ORCID Radboud University Nijmegen
  45. Naná Giadresco verified email Utrecht University
  46. Tristan van der Vlugt ORCID Project assistant (FWF), TU Wien
  47. Rachel Greenfeld ORCID Northwestern University
  48. Gilbert Peralta ORCID Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of the Philippines Baguio
  49. Marek Michalewicz ORCID CEO, Siranga Sp. z o.o.
  50. Ziad Badehian ORCID Central Tehran university
  51. Jakub Rylow ORCID University of Warsaw
    Comment

    I support the Declaration's call to protect what makes mathematics trustworthy: the reliability of proof, fair attribution, and open peer review. AI can be a genuine aid to discovery, but only if its use is disclosed, its results are checked by humans who take responsibility for them, and prior work is properly cited. I welcome in particular the emphasis on keeping evaluation and publication within the scholarly community rather than commercial interests.

  52. Robert Planque ORCID Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  53. Leonid Kunyansky ORCID Professor, University of Arizona
  54. Adam Onus ORCID Oxford Ludwig Institute, University of Oxford
  55. Boaz Moerman ORCID PhD graduate, Utrecht University
  56. Tony Mann ORCID Director, Greenwich Maths Centre, University of Greenwich
  57. Allan Peter Engsig-Karup ORCID Technical University of Denmark
    Comment

    Proper use of AI to deliver value that benefits out societies include understanding pros and cons and establish insights into current state of capabilities of AI its limitations. We need to work for transparency, trustworthy and secure use of AI and AI-enabled technologies. Also, we need to take into account human values to ensure that AI is not abused in ways that at large is not beneficial to our societies and values. The future of AI belongs to all of us.

  58. David Urs Wiedemann Universität Duisburg-Essen
  59. Thomas Hemker ORCID Professor Digital Engineering, FH Münster University of Applied Sciences
  60. Martí Oller ORCID University of Cambridge
  61. Nils Carqueville ORCID Professor
  62. David Muñoz-Lahoz verified email Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  63. Skye Purchase ORCID Imperial College London
  64. Giulio Colombo ORCID Università degli Studi di Milano
  65. Francisco Javier García Capitán Secondary school math teacher, independent researcher
  66. Qingdao Chen verified email University College London, University of London
    Comment

    After the first glance of the ancient apes towards the starry sky, human have being thinking for thousands of years. We shall never let artificial intelligence deprive human's right to think in our generation.

  67. Dariusz Wrzosek ORCID Professor, University of Warsaw
  68. Takayuki Kawamoto ORCID Chief AI Officer / Chier Privacy Officer at First Brand Inc. (Japan)
  69. Carlo Bellavita ORCID Postdoc, Università degli Studi di Milano
  70. Wentao Hu ORCID PhD Student
  71. Zuzana Haniková ORCID Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  72. Alexandre Girouard ORCID Université Laval
  73. Abdessatar Souissi ORCID University of Monastir, Tunisia
  74. Debora Schuch da Rosa ORCID Computer Scientist
  75. Tomás Cardoso da Rocha Antunes ORCID Student, Universidade Aberta
  76. Vassilis Daskalogiannis ORCID Anatolia American University, Thessaloniki, Greece
  77. ALESSANDRO MONGUZZI ORCID Researcher, University of Bergamo
  78. Miguel Couceiro ORCID Full Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
  79. Jef Laga ORCID Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
  80. Donald Robertson ORCID University of Manchester
  81. Nicolas Tabareau ORCID Senior Researcher, Inria
  82. Giovanni Forni ORCID Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
    Comment

    Mathematics is part of culture and it is a human creation and activity. Perhaps AI might be useful as a tool, but if the tool is powerful it has to be handled with great care. This means public control, clear rules, transparency and consideration of benefits versus damage to environment, education, public discourse, economic welfare, cultural production and activities, including mathematics itself.

  83. Miguel Ángel Díaz Quiñones Ex-engineer working in industry, ex-mathematics teacher, retired
  84. Roland Speicher ORCID Professor, Saarland University
  85. Assia Mahboubi ORCID Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre
  86. Lyonell Boulton ORCID Heriot-Watt University
  87. Guillaume Poly verified email Université de Nantes
  88. Toby Bartels verified email Southeast Community College
  89. Niranjan Balachandran ORCID Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  90. Alberto López ORCID ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa
  91. Théo Winterhalter ORCID Researcher, Inria Saclay - Île-de-France Research Centre
  92. Ehud Friedgut verified email Weizmann Institute of Science
  93. Inhyeok Choi ORCID KIAS
  94. Marten van Dijk ORCID Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
  95. Hjalmar Rosengren ORCID Chalmers University of Technology
  96. Xingzhi Chen Student of Pure Mathematics
    Comment

    I fully support this declaration. As an AI-augmented learner, I have seen how AI can transform the methodology of learning mathematics and serve as a catalyst for conceptual understanding. Nevertheless, it must be used critically: proof, verification, attribution, and responsibility must remain with human judgment.

  97. Jiabao Liu ORCID PhD, Waseda University
  98. Chiara Leone verified email University of Naples Federico II
  99. Harold Ship ORCID IBM Research - Haifa
  100. Sudheesh Surendranath ORCID Graduate Student, University of Utah