B.5:4.5 - Organize human and AI contributions around the work

Calculation, conjecture, proof, explanation, criticism and question formation may be performed with different combinations of people, AI and other tools. Choose that allocation from their actual capabilities, available support, constraints and the evidence needed for the receiving use. Revisit it when those conditions change.

When the question depends on a result from another practice, use A.15.9 to use the available answer or select a worthwhile missing contribution. State the working question, available inputs, result needed and intended use in terms the receiver can check. If the formal formulation is itself missing, ask the mathematician, physicist or supported AI for that formulation and its correspondence to the working question.

For an engineer, derive the needed capability from representative later work: what must this person be able to understand, ask, construct, criticize or arrange with the assistance that will actually be available? The answer can include interpreting a proof’s central idea or recognizing that a measured proxy omits the intended quantity, even when a tool performs most calculations. It can also justify deeper mathematical study when constructing or modifying the theory is the required contribution.

When assessing that capability, use representative work under the declared support and inspect the person’s relevant contribution. A completed AI-assisted report alone leaves that contribution underdetermined.