This is a short announcement about the birth of the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM), an organization run collectively by mathematicians at all career stages. Its main goal is to protect mathematics and its practitioners from the jaws of AI companies, whose actions are increasingly destructive to our discipline, to the environment, and to society at large. To achieve that goal, we must critically analyze the use of AI models in all aspects of our work: doing research, writing it up, submitting it for publication, and presenting it, but also teaching, mentoring, communicating, and much more. Members of the AHM will work to create policies addressing the issues faced by our journals, departments, and professional organizations.
Anyone is free to join the AHM. There are no membership fees or dues, and participation in the working groups is voluntary. Members are asked to publicly sign onto two commitments: not to work for AI companies, and not to publish texts generated by AI models. There is an optional third public commitment: to abstain from AI usage in core mathematical activities.
The Association is organizing working groups devoted to making mathematics a better place for humans. Three central working group topics are teaching, hiring practices, and journal policies. We are here to help and you should feel free to reach out if you want to know what we are doing.
If you have reservations or doubts about the way things are going, you should join. If you have already spent some time thinking about how to improve the current system and want to share your ideas, you should join. If you have discussed these issues in your department and are already taking steps in a positive direction, you should join. If the journal you edit is overrun with AI-generated submissions and you are looking for solutions, you should join.
Finally, if you think this is all overblown and that we will go back to normal in no time, or that your field will not be affected, or that corporate AI will somehow level the playing field and ultimately become a democratizing force in mathematics well, we urge you to look around, talk to your colleagues, and think again.
Received 11 September 2026.
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