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. André de Carvalho ORCID Professor, Universidade de São Paulo
  2. Javier Arsuaga ORCID Professor, UC Davis
  3. Derek Perrin ORCID University of Canterbury
  4. Joe Kramer-Miller verified email Lehigh University
  5. Robert Davis ORCID Associate Professor , Colgate University
  6. Ruriko Yoshida ORCID Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
  7. Ivan Corwin ORCID Professor, Columbia University
  8. Sigiswald Barbier ORCID Postdoc, Ghent University
  9. Yasser Roudi ORCID Professor of Disordered Systems, King's College London
  10. Ilir Ziba ORCID PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin
  11. Benjamin Mudrak verified email Purdue University
  12. 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.

  13. Samantha Fairchild ORCID Assistant Professor, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  14. 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.

  15. 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!

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

    The computing power of AI does not absolve us of the duty to keep thinking. AI is a tool to empower skilled and knowledgable people, helping them tot rise above and beyond. Surrendering human ingenuity and creativity to AI is not only regrettable, it strips us of a meaningful existence.

  33. 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.

  34. Iago Bonnici ORCID Research Engineer, CNRS
  35. Andrew Teschendorff ORCID Professor, Partner Institute for Computational Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society
  36. Yuezhao Li ORCID Postdoctoral researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik
  37. Fabrizio Andreatta verified email University of Milan
  38. Jan Maas ORCID Institute of Science and Technology Austria
  39. Sergei Merenkov ORCID Professor, City College of New York
  40. Jayant Pande ORCID FLAME University, India
  41. Bastian Hilder ORCID Postdoc, Technical University of Munich
  42. John M. Lee ORCID Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
  43. Tomáš Kaiser ORCID Professor, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
  44. iain maitland ORCID Research Software Engineer, Johns Hopkins University Data Science and AI Institute
  45. Margaret A. Readdy, Professor of Mathematics verified email University of Kentucky
  46. NAHUEL ALBARRACIN ORCID Teacher in charge of practical assignments, Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
  47. Deepak Bal ORCID Associate Professor, Montclair State University
  48. Ye-Kai Wang ORCID Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
  49. E. Javier Elizondo ORCID Associate professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  50. Alfred Müller ORCID Professor, Universität Siegen
  51. Jasmin Blanchette ORCID Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  52. 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.

  53. 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.

  54. Yousef Abdurahman Aburawi ORCID Assistant Professor, Misurata University
  55. 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.

  56. Stephen Doty ORCID Professor, Loyola University Chicago
  57. Michele Benzi ORCID Professor of Numerical Analysis, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
  58. Laura Fredrickson ORCID Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
  59. Cal Peters Sr Design Engineer
  60. David Mehrle ORCID Postdoc, University of Kentucky
  61. Yangzhen Ye ORCID University of Michigan
  62. Cash Bowman ORCID University of California, Los Angeles
  63. Nicola FUSCO ORCID Università di Napoli Federico II
  64. Finn Bartsch ORCID Radboud University Nijmegen
  65. Alfredo Noel Iusem verified email Full Professor, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Escola de Matemática Aplicada (EMAp-FGV)
  66. Amanda Beecher ORCID Director of Contests & Outreach, Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications
  67. prakash sellathurai ORCID BE, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology
  68. Andrés R. Vindas Meléndez ORCID Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College
  69. Francisco Serrano ORCID Profesor investigador, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
  70. 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.

  71. Mark Hagen ORCID University of Bristol
  72. STEFANO MEDA ORCID Università di Milano-Bicocca
  73. Melissa Zhang ORCID University of California, Davis
  74. Jonas Jansen ORCID Institute for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hohenheim
  75. Bianca Fürstenau verified email University of Groningen
  76. Isnaldo Isaac Barbosa ORCID Professor, Universidade Federal de Alagoas
  77. Alexander Cardona ORCID Universidad de los Andes
  78. Francisco Braun ORCID Professor Associado, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos
  79. Giuseppe Longo ORCID CNRS, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris
  80. Alessandro Saffiotti ORCID Professor, Örebro Universitet
  81. 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.

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

    I hereby support this declaration

  84. Timur Ksianzou verified email Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
  85. Elena Fuchs ORCID University of California, Davis
  86. Nishad Kothari ORCID Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  87. Brendan Sullivan ORCID Assistant Professor, Emmanuel College - Massachusetts
  88. Nhat Hoang Le verified email National University of Singapore
  89. Kelvin D. Meeks Founder, International Technology Ventures, Inc.
  90. Panagiotis L. Kastritis ORCID Professor for Integrative Structural Biochemistry, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
  91. Firas Zaier ORCID Doctor of Medicine, Tunis El Manar University
  92. Daniel Coutand verified email Heriot-Watt University
  93. Jacob Pennington ORCID Doctoral student in Mathematics at Washington State University, and Software Engineer at Janelia Research Campus.
  94. Florian Breuer ORCID Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
  95. Maria Paola Bonacina ORCID Professor of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di VERONA
  96. 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.

  97. Giuseppe Dito Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Université Bourgogne Europe
  98. 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.

  99. Soumya Sankar ORCID Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University
  100. 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.