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Chair's note · Damian Betebenner

Reference frameworks for the norm-building segment

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    Reference frameworks for the norm-building segment _Chair's notes for the session corpus, 6 October 2026. The session proposal names the Leiden Declaration as "the obvious model" for a discipline-level response, and the norm-building segment asks for candidate norms in a fixed form. This note summarizes both. The declaration is summarized, not reproduced; read the original at the link._ The session's norm form Each candidate norm names three things: - a concrete **activity**; - the **conditions** under which AI involvement in it is acceptable; - **who is answerable** for the resulting decision. The panel accepts, revises or rejects each norm on screen. The proposal says the norms draw mainly on guiding questions 3 (what must be verified, documented and disclosed) and 5 (where authority and accountability remain human). The panel decided (6 October 2026) that the norms leave the room as a session artifact, not as a declaration. The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics (2 June 2026) - A community initiative endorsed by the International Mathematical Union (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20302944). - It grounds its recommendations in five values of mathematical research, summarized here: - proofs confer certainty and understanding; - results are attributable to authors who take credit and responsibility; - arguments are transparent and independently verifiable; - the community keeps shared standards for judging depth and significance; - understanding and expertise develop within autonomous communities of mathematicians. - Recommendations to individual mathematicians include: - disclose the use of automated tools, including large language models; - make verification easier for peer review; - keep human responsibility for correctness; - affirm that authorship remains human; - attribute carefully; - choose tools in line with these values. - It also addresses mathematical organizations and funders (lead on publishing and reviewing policy, keep standards of rigor for automated results), policymakers, and commercial AI.
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    policy, keep standards of rigor for automated results), policymakers, and commercial AI. Points of comparison the panel may draw _These are the chair's notes, not claims made by the declaration._ - **Verification.** Mathematics can verify a proof. Measurement has no single equivalent; the closest is a validity argument, which is cumulative and judgment-laden. What would independent verification of an AI-assisted analysis mean in measurement? - **Authorship and responsibility.** The declaration keeps both human. Briggs's question (whose judgment is a review revised after an AI critique?) and Betebenner's (who answers for work beyond hand-checking?) test the same principle in measurement practice. - **Disclosure.** The declaration asks authors to disclose tool use. Briggs's scan found 13 of 14 measurement journals require authors to disclose generative AI use. Reviewer-side rules are inherited from publishers. Source: https://leidendeclaration.ai/