AI in Funding | AFIRE Experimental Funders Group

Описание: Andrés F. Rodríguez, Impact and Learning Manager at Stanford Impact Labs (SIL), an impact-oriented research funder, spoke on “The role of evaluations on responsible AI use for research grant-making”.

Ben Steyn, Head of Metascience at DSIT and co-head of the DSIT/UKRI Metascience Unit spoke about a portfolio of UKRI projects to test the feasibility and effectiveness of AI desk rejection, AI as a reviewer, and AI as a meta-reviewer, as well as wider thinking and consideration of how AI is shaping the applications (number and content) and could be integrated into UKRI processes.

Recorded on 13 May 2026

This talk was part of our AFIRE Experimental Funders Group meetings, a series of talks and discussions for funders interested in formal experiments and evaluations of innovations in the research and innovation funding system, part of RoRI’s AFIRE programme: an Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation.