2024/05/14 - Vlasta Sikimić (Eindhoven University of Technology), 13:00 - 13:45 (CEST) "Is AI to be used in grant review"
Abstract: The existing peer review system for scientific grants is criticized for being costly, time-intensive, and unreliable. Could AI be the solution, i.e., could AI be successfully employed in grant review? On the one hand, AI is a fast and cheap method that can even be trained using the preferences of peer reviewers. On the other hand, transitioning to automated grant review poses significant epistemic and ethical hurdles. The epistemic challenges include qualitative assessments of data and making appropriate parameter selections, while the ethical concerns include the accuracy and transparency of automated grant evaluation. We will argue against fully automating the grant review process, highlighting the risk of neglecting important values in science, such as diversity of thoughts and epistemic inclusion.
