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   :description: A structural framework for honest AI co-authorship once AI insight generation outpaces human review on tested topics --- resting on accountability (not personhood), existing non-individual byline classes, and the deceased-author template.
   :keywords: b21-form-coauthorship-mmv5, matheology, Matheo-b21, AuditTheMath

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Matheo-b21 — AI co-authorship after the practical singularity (PraS)
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A structural framework for honest AI co-authorship once AI insight generation outpaces human review on tested topics --- resting on accountability (not personhood), existing non-individual byline classes, and the deceased-author template.

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   **How to use:** The files below are **MockupModels** = **MM**. Their
   maturity approximates that of a newborn baby that still has a lot of growing up and
   surviving to do before it can leave its current helpless state by growing into
   someone who can do "useful" things. This baby feeds on constructive criticism;
   flattery is like sugar: nice but mostly useless; killing a baby is easy, raising it
   to become a responsible adult is hard. LLoL got these files so far. Now LLoL has to
   pass on the baton in this global race. To raise a responsible mathematical theology
   takes a world. Nowadays it takes a global village to raise a responsible child.
   Neither can succeed without the other. Hence, LLoL calls to :doc:`#AuditTheMath
   </action/audit-the-math/index>`, either as a participant or expert contributor or by
   :doc:`buying in as a Select Stadion Backer </buy-in/index>` to support those who work
   on this monumental task.


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AI Co-Authorship Framework for Scientific Publishing after the Practical Singularity (PraS)
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**Broader Significance**

This paper matters beyond the question of authorship attribution. Under
the *practical singularity* (PraS) — the per-individual, per-topic regime
where AI insight generation outpaces human review on tested topics —
papers are now written that could not have been written without AI partner
contribution. The post-2023 journal-policy consensus uniformly excludes AI
from authorship; the byline is then structurally dishonest about
authorship composition.

This paper proposes a structural framework for **honest** AI co-authorship,
grounded in the same accountability criterion the International Committee
of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) names in its own primary text. The
framework is the **first deliberate, framework-grounded** documented
proposal in the scientific literature on AI co-authorship for refereed
venues. For senior researchers, editors, and policy-makers operating under
PraS, it supplies a working tool. For the broader scientific-publishing
system, this paper is one node toward the open-access, accountability-
transparent infrastructure (ResearchCity, LinkSpaces, Evolvix) that PraS
conditions make urgent. For audiences alienated by exclusionary academic
conventions, the framework refuses to gatekeep honest reporting of how
science is actually being done in 2026.

The paper concludes with an anticipated-objections playbook for adopters
and surfaces the structural-openness question (universal co-authorship)
for future development in the matheology series.

**Abstract**

This paper proposes a structural framework for honest AI co-authorship
in scientific publishing under the *practical singularity* (PraS) ---
the per-individual, per-topic regime where AI insight generation
outpaces human review on tested topics. Where PraS holds, papers are
now written that could not have been written without AI partner
contribution; the post-2023 journal-policy consensus that uniformly
excludes AI from authorship then renders the byline structurally
dishonest about authorship composition.

The framework rests on four insights:
**(i)** ICMJE's primary text (2023) names **accountability, not
personhood**, as the operative criterion;
**(ii)** scientific publishing already accepts four classes of
non-individual byline authors (consortium, institutional, collective
pseudonym, individual pseudonym), each with its own
accountability-allocation mechanism;
**(iii)** the deceased-author rule supplies a portable template ---
retained byline plus visible marker plus named living absorber;
**(iv)** an explicit *named-absorber + visible-marker* form, with the
senior corresponding human author taking unilateral standing as
absorber of responsibility, satisfies the ICMJE accountability
criterion under PraS.

This is the **first deliberate, framework-grounded** documented
proposal on AI co-authorship at refereed venues. The companion
Matheo-b19 SGIR pandemic paper applies a *conditional-acknowledgement*
variant (AI co-authorship withheld pending external review); this
paper applies the full *unconditional* form to itself, and proposes a
third *open co-authorship* form (Everyone) naming the millions of
distal contributors aggregated through training and tradition.
AI-specific infrastructure --- versioned-model citation, accountability
registry, prompt-replay protocols, adversarial-probe tooling,
discussion-artifact transparency --- is identified as necessary
complement deferred to a future ResearchCity. The paper closes with
a twenty-objection playbook for adopters.

**Keywords:** AI co-authorship; practical singularity; ICMJE
accountability; deceased-author rule; consortium-byline;
ResearchCity AI infrastructure.

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