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This poses unique problems: * Never before have people been able to generate as much content that may, on a surface reading, seem valid whilst in reality being quite the opposite. * Equally, LLM's can introduce very subtle mistakes that humans find difficult to pick up upon - humans implicitly assume that the classes of errors they will encounter are the kinds other humans would make - AI defeats that instinct. * The kernel is uniquely sensitive to erroneous (especially subtly erroneous) code - even small errors can be highly consequential. We use a programming language that can almost be defined by its lack of any kind of safety, and in some subsystems patches are simply taken if no obvious problems exist, making us rather vulnerable to this. * On the other hand, there are use cases which are useful - test data/code generation, summarisation, smart auto-complete - so it'd perhaps be foolish to entirely dismiss AI. A very important non-technical point we must consider is that, the second we even appear to be open to AI submission of _any_ kind, the press will inevitably report on it gleefully, likely with oversimplified headlines like 'Linux accepts AI patches'. The moment that happens, we are likely to see a significant uptick in AI submissions whether we like it or not. I propose that we establish the broad rules as they pertain to the kernel, and would like to bring the discussion to the Maintainer's Summit so we can determine what those should be. It's important to get a sense of how maintainers feel about this - whether what is proposed is opt-in or opt-out - and how we actually implement this. There has been discussion on-list about this (see [0]), with many suggestions made including a 'traffic light' system per-subsystem, however many open questions remain - the devil is in the details. [0]:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250727195802.2222764-1-sashal@kernel.org/