Use of Artificial Intelligence in SMF Publications
Authors:
- The SMF considers that AI tools cannot be designated as authors of an article or monograph. Indeed, they cannot assume responsibility for the submitted work, declare the presence or absence of conflicts of interest, or manage copyright issues and licensing agreements.
- In a separate paragraph, authors must specify if and how they have utilized AI during their research and which parts of the submitted article are concerned. This includes discussions or ideas proposed by generative AI (particularly during preparatory exchanges), bibliographic research, calculations, the generation of examples or counter-examples, the development or verification of proofs, the refinement of writing, the creation of images, the production of data or code, or any use beyond basic spelling and grammar checking or translation.
- Authors remain fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including any portions generated by an AI tool, and are therefore accountable for any breaches of publication ethics. In particular, authors must ensure that their work is free from plagiarism, as generative AI tools may produce content replicated from other published sources. Authors must properly cite any underlying work upon which the generated content relies and obtain the necessary permissions if any content is reused.
- The SMF is committed to a human-centered practice of mathematics. An article or book in which a significant portion has been obtained using generative AI should not be submitted to the SMF for publication.
Reviewers and Editors:
- Editors and reviewers must not upload articles or book manuscripts currently under review to a generative AI, unless they have been explicitly authorized to do so by the authors.
