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Artificial Intelligence

The fol­low­ing is our cur­rent think­ing about the use of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence at MSP pub­lic­a­tions, meant as a start­ing point for dia­logue and con­sulta­tions, and a gen­er­al frame­work for our journ­als that is, for now, de­lib­er­ately min­im­al. Our ed­it­or­i­al boards con­tin­ue to dis­cuss, de­vel­op their policies, and ad­apt to the on­go­ing dra­mat­ic changes to the pro­fes­sion. (1 Novem­ber 2026)

Draft Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

While the math­em­at­ic­al com­munity as­sesses the trans­form­a­tion­al ef­fects of ar­ti­fi­cial-in­tel­li­gence tools on our sub­ject, MSP will per­mit their use in pre­par­ing sub­mis­sions, on the fol­low­ing terms:

Au­thors should keep in mind that the pur­pose of math­em­at­ic­al pub­lic­a­tion is not only to re­cord pro­gress, but also to com­mu­nic­ate it to oth­ers. A pa­per must there­fore present its ideas clearly, mo­tiv­ate its meth­ods, and set out its ar­gu­ments so that a know­ledge­able read­er can fol­low and veri­fy them. Sub­mis­sions will be judged on the qual­ity of their ex­pos­i­tion as well as on the cor­rect­ness and sig­ni­fic­ance of their res­ults.

Au­thors must ac­know­ledge any use of AI bey­ond routine help with lan­guage, such as cor­rect­ing spelling and gram­mar or im­prov­ing the flu­ency of the au­thors’ own text. This ac­know­ledg­ment must identi­fy which res­ults, proofs, com­pu­ta­tions, or pas­sages were pro­duced or ma­ter­i­ally shaped with AI as­sist­ance, so that ed­it­ors, ref­er­ees, and read­ers can un­der­stand the role these tools played in the work.

Whatever tools are used, the au­thors alone are re­spons­ible for the math­em­at­ic­al cor­rect­ness of the sub­mis­sion and for any claims it makes of con­cep­tu­al pro­gress, in­clud­ing how it po­s­i­tions its res­ults re­l­at­ive to the ex­ist­ing lit­er­at­ure. The use of AI does not di­min­ish this re­spons­ib­il­ity in any way.