Roadmap
Diderot is at an early stage — a working demonstration with no institution, funding, or editorial staff behind it yet, and running costs presently covered out of pocket. The project is actively seeking institutional support. This page describes, candidly, how it is meant to grow.
Near-term: content and community
The most immediate challenge is reaching a critical mass of submissions and community around them.
The current site already serves two purposes. Submissions with an AI Tool Disclosure certificate can help other mathematicians use AI more effectively ― a form of learning by example. The site also gives a home to AI writeups that would not ordinarily go on arXiv.
Three simple things would help enormously:
- Joining the Zulip server. Simply being a member counts — there is no need to post.
- Spreading the word. If you feel comfortable doing so, share links to the website and the Zulip server with researchers, mathematicians, engineers — anyone who might be interested — and ask them to pass it on in turn.
- Anonymous submissions of AI writeups. Feel free to submit any AI writeups that would not ordinarily go on arXiv. For now, anonymous submissions are possible.
A larger ask: crossposting existing arXiv submissions here.
Medium-term: structure and funding
If the project gains traction, the plan is to set up a non-profit to handle the overhead — legal, political, and administrative — involved in running a preprint server. The search for institutional support is already underway.