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From: Daniel Kaufman <114174502+danielfromearth@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 13:50:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add AI policy from SciPy

Updated AI policy document to clarify responsibilities, disclosure, code quality, copyright, communication, and use of AI agents.
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+# AI Policy
+
+"AI" herein refers to generative AI tools like large language models (LLMs)
+that can generate, edit, and review software code, create and manipulate
+images, or generate human-like communication.
+
+## Responsibility
+
+You are responsible for any code you submit to SciPy's repositories, regardless
+of whether it was manually written or generated by AI. You must understand and be able
+to explain the code you submit as well as the existing related code. It is not
+acceptable to submit a patch that you cannot understand and explain yourself.
+In explaining your contribution, do not use AI to automatically generate
+descriptions.
+
+## Disclosure
+
+You must disclose whether AI has been used to assist in the development of
+your pull request.
+If so, you must document which tool(s) have been used, how they were used,
+and specify what code or text is AI generated. We will reject any pull request
+that does not include the disclosure.
+
+## Code Quality
+
+Code generated by AI can be of low quality. Contributors are expected to
+submit code that meets SciPy's standards. We will reject pull requests that we
+deem being "[AI slop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop)". 
+Do not waste developers' time by submitting code that
+is fully or mostly generated by AI, and doesn't meet our standards.
+
+## Copyright
+
+All code in SciPy is released under the BSD 3-clause copyright license.
+Contributors to SciPy license their code under the same license when it is
+included into SciPy's version control repository. That means contributors must
+own the copyright of any code submitted to SciPy or must include the BSD
+3-clause compatible open source license(s) associated with the submitted code
+in the patch. Code generated by AI may infringe on copyright and it is the
+submitter's responsibility to not infringe. We reserve the right to reject any pull
+requests, AI generated or not, where the copyright is in question.
+
+## Communication
+
+When interacting with developers (forum, discussions,
+issues, pull requests, etc.) do not use AI to speak for you, except for
+translation or grammar editing. If the developers want to chat with a chatbot,
+they can do so themselves. Human-to-human communication is essential for an
+open source community to thrive.
+
+## AI Agents
+
+The use of an AI agent that writes code and then submits a pull request autonomously is
+not permitted. A human must check any generated code and submit a pull request according
+to the 'Responsibility' section above.
+
+## Other Resources
+
+While these do not formally form part of SciPy's AI policy, the following resources
+may be helpful in understanding some pitfalls associated with using AI to contribute to
+SciPy:
+
+- https://llvm.org/docs/AIToolPolicy.html
+- https://blog.scientific-python.org/scientific-python/community-considerations-around-ai/
+- https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+We thank the SymPy developers for their AI policy, upon which this document is largely
+based.

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 Code generated by AI can be of low quality. Contributors are expected to
 submit code that meets SciPy's standards. We will reject pull requests that we
-deem being "[AI slop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop)". 
+deem being "[AI slop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop)".
 Do not waste developers' time by submitting code that
 is fully or mostly generated by AI, and doesn't meet our standards.