Its a completely different question but are you happy to receive 100% AI grant application as well?
I’d prefer human-written applications, because it can be hard to distinguish ~100% AI-written but primarily using the applicants’ own ideas and reasoning from ~100% AI-generated, including writing, ideas and reasoning.[1] Grants are bets on the grantees’ abilities, not just the project idea. However, I tend to also talk to applicants over calls or in person, and see their work in other ways.
I can imagine for a project for which communication by the applicant is an important part of the project’s path to impact, if the application looks AI-written, I would ask them to resubmit or I would reject them, if and because the people the applicant would be communicating to dislike AI writing. This hasn’t come up yet, though.
And would you be happy on your grantmaker end to allow your own AI to review that application or would you insist on reading it yourself
At this point, I’d insist on at least personally reading parts that are enough to be decisive one way or the other.
Of course, this leaves another possibility (and others in between the different possibilities outlined so far, including no AI use): 100% of the ideas and reasoning come from AI, but the application is 100% written by the applicant. Hopefully by writing it themself, they’ve taken the time to understand what they’re submitting, but it would still be better if the ideas came from the applicant.
I’d prefer human-written applications, because it can be hard to distinguish ~100% AI-written but primarily using the applicants’ own ideas and reasoning from ~100% AI-generated, including writing, ideas and reasoning.[1] Grants are bets on the grantees’ abilities, not just the project idea. However, I tend to also talk to applicants over calls or in person, and see their work in other ways.
I can imagine for a project for which communication by the applicant is an important part of the project’s path to impact, if the application looks AI-written, I would ask them to resubmit or I would reject them, if and because the people the applicant would be communicating to dislike AI writing. This hasn’t come up yet, though.
At this point, I’d insist on at least personally reading parts that are enough to be decisive one way or the other.
Of course, this leaves another possibility (and others in between the different possibilities outlined so far, including no AI use): 100% of the ideas and reasoning come from AI, but the application is 100% written by the applicant. Hopefully by writing it themself, they’ve taken the time to understand what they’re submitting, but it would still be better if the ideas came from the applicant.