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@@ -446,6 +446,34 @@ highlighted above.
 Only capitalize the very first letter of the trailer, i.e. favor
 "Signed-off-by" over "Signed-Off-By" and "Acked-by:" over "Acked-By".
 
+[[ai]]
+=== Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
+
+The Developer's Certificate of Origin requires contributors to certify
+that they know the origin of their contributions to the project and
+that they have the right to submit it under the project's license.
+It's not yet clear that this can be legally satisfied when submitting
+significant amount of content that has been generated by AI tools.
+
+Another issue with AI generated content is that AIs still often
+hallucinate or just produce bad code, commit messages, documentation
+or output, even when you point out their mistakes.
+
+To avoid these issues, we will reject anything that looks AI
+generated, that sounds overly formal or bloated, that looks like AI
+slop, that looks good on the surface but makes no sense, or that
+senders don’t understand or cannot explain.
+
+We strongly recommend using AI tools carefully and responsibly.
+
+Contributors would often benefit more from AI by using it to guide and
+help them step by step towards producing a solution by themselves
+rather than by asking for a full solution that they would then mostly
+copy-paste. They can also use AI to help with debugging, or with
+checking for obvious mistakes, things that can be improved, things
+that don’t match our style, guidelines or our feedback, before sending
+it to us.
+
 [[git-tools]]
 === Generate your patch using Git tools out of your commits.
 
@@ -579,14 +607,27 @@ line via `git format-patch --notes`.
 [[the-topic-summary]]
 *This is EXPERIMENTAL*.
 
-When sending a topic, you can propose a one-paragraph summary that
-should appear in the "What's cooking" report when it is picked up to
-explain the topic.  If you choose to do so, please write a 2-5 line
-paragraph that will fit well in our release notes (see many bulleted
-entries in the Documentation/RelNotes/* files for examples), and make
-it the first paragraph of the cover letter.  For a single-patch
-series, use the space between the three-dash line and the diffstat, as
-described earlier.
+When sending a topic, you can optionally propose a topic name and/or a
+one-paragraph summary that should appear in the "What's cooking"
+report when it is picked up to explain the topic.  If you choose to do
+so, please write a 2-5 line paragraph that will fit well in our
+release notes (see many bulleted entries in the
+Documentation/RelNotes/* files for examples), and make it the first
+(or second, if including a suggested topic name) paragraph of the
+cover letter.  If suggesting a topic name, use the format
+"XX/your-topic-name", where "XX" is a stand-in for the primary
+author's initials, and "your-topic-name" is a brief, dash-delimited
+description of what your topic does.  For a single-patch series, use
+the space between the three-dash line and the diffstat, as described
+earlier.
+
+[[multi-series-efforts]]
+If your patch series is part of a larger effort spanning multiple
+patch series, briefly describe the broader goal, and state where the
+current series fits into that goal.  If you are suggesting a topic
+name as in <<the-topic-summary, section above>>, consider
+"XX/the-broader-goal-part-one", "XX/the-broader-goal-part-two", and so
+on.
 
 [[attachment]]
 Do not attach the patch as a MIME attachment, compressed or not.