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Update on the "AI-based triage" which is getting lots of (negative) attention

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AI ‘could filter out weaker grant proposals’, study suggests. Preprint analysing automated scoring of applications for UKRI funding comes amid reports of AI-based rejections. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...

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From my reading [I'd welcome a view from others] there is nothing in the T&C's of UKRI grants that technically prohibits this (although I've not read any additional conditions for this specific award). And the UKRI policy on use of generative AI is for UKRI processes (as I read it).

There is now (and for now!). RGC 3.1.2 requires you to follow 'Our policy on the governance of good research practice', which includes: 'Use of generative AI tools as part of assessment by reviewers and panelists...is a breach of confidentiality...' Not sure tho when this was introduced.

This is exactly the kind of content I use Bluesky for! Thank you. A link within a T&C document is always difficult. Although you are right it is definitely there. Although applying that to pre application stage demand management is an interesting case.