Use of Artificial Intelligence

Educação Matemática Debate, a scientific journal dedicated to the production and dissemination of knowledge in the field of Mathematical Education, recognizes the growing impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies on research processes, academic writing, evaluation, and scientific editing. In accordance with its Ethics and Best Practices in Publication policy, and the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Unesco, and SciELO, this policy is established to ensure scientific integrity, editorial transparency, and the centrality of human agency in knowledge production.

The use of Artificial Intelligence tools within Educação Matemática Debate must rigorously observe the principles of transparency, human authorship, intellectual responsibility, information integrity, and data protection.

AI tools do not possess authorship, ethical intent, or legal responsibility and, therefore, cannot be recognized as authors or co-authors of manuscripts submitted to or published by the journal. Full responsibility for the scientific, ethical, and legal content of any manuscript remains exclusively with the human author.

Authors may use Artificial Intelligence tools to support auxiliary activities, such as linguistic revision, translation, text organization, formatting, preliminary information synthesis, image processing and resolution improvement, or technical support for data analysis, provided that such use is critical, supervised, and duly declared.

In the case of linguistic revision (grammatical, syntactic, spelling, cohesion, and coherence corrections) or translation, both activities must be supervised by a competent professional.

The use of AI tools is prohibited for:

• the complete or partial generation of original scientific content, including hypotheses, objectives, analyses, interpretations, discussions, and conclusions;
• the replacement of human intellectual authorship;
• the production of fictitious or manipulated data, results, or empirical evidence.

Any use of AI must be declared clearly, precisely, and transparently in the manuscript, preferably in the Methodology section or in a footnote, indicating:

• the tool or system used, including version, when applicable;
• the purpose of the use;
• the stage of the work in which AI was employed;
• the recognized limitations of this use.

The undeclared use of AI tools constitutes a serious ethical breach and may result in rejection of the manuscript, retraction of the published article, or other editorial measures provided for in the Ethics and Best Practices policy of the Educação Matemática Debate.

Authorship must exercise critical vigilance over the results produced with the support of AI, considering risks such as the generation of incorrect information, non-existent references, algorithmic biases, homogenization of academic language, violation of copyright, and dissemination of misinformation.

Verifying the accuracy of information, validating sources, and critically analyzing content generated with the support of AI are non-delegable responsibilities of human authorship.

The insertion of sensitive data, confidential information, personal data of research participants, or unpublished manuscript content into AI platforms that do not ensure compliance with current data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Law (LGPD), is prohibited.

Authorship must ensure that the use of AI does not compromise the originality of the research or the ethical confidentiality of the data involved.

Ad hoc reviewers must issue their opinions autonomously, critically, and with sound reasoning, and the complete delegation of scientific evaluation to Artificial Intelligence systems is prohibited.

The use of AI tools as occasional support — for example, for linguistic suggestions or translation of passages — is permitted, provided that:

• it does not compromise the anonymity and confidentiality of the manuscript;
• it is transparently stated in the review;
• it does not replace human academic judgment.

The identification of inappropriate or undeclared use of AI in the manuscript must be reported to the editorial board.

The editorial board of Educação Matemática Debate may use AI tools exclusively for technical and administrative activities, such as similarity verification, organization of editorial workflows, formatting support, or preliminary scope identification.

Editorial decisions — including acceptance, rejection, requests for revisions, errata, retractions, or expressions of concern — are the sole responsibility of human editors and cannot be delegated to AI systems.

Sharing manuscripts submitted on AI platforms that compromise the content is prohibited.

Non-compliance with the guidelines established in this policy will be analyzed in light of the Ethics and Best Practices in Publication policy of Educação Matemática Debate and the guidelines of COPE and SciELO, and may result, depending on the severity of the case, in:

• suspension of the editorial process;
• rejection of the manuscript;
• publication of corrections or retractions;
• other applicable editorial measures.

Considering the dynamic nature of Artificial Intelligence technologies, this policy may be periodically revised by the editors of Educação Matemática Debate, in order to incorporate technological advances, recommendations from international organizations, and consolidated best practices in scientific communication.

This Artificial Intelligence Use Policy is part of the journal's normative framework and should be interpreted in conjunction with the Ethics and Best Practices in Publication policy, the Conflict of Interest policy, the Peer Review policy, and the Post-Publication Corrections Policy.