Allowed with disclosure. The funder lets applicants use AI and requires or asks them to say where they used it.
What applicants may do
What the funder asks of applicants
- Submit an AI Disclosure Statement (Wheaton grants) or AI Disclosure Form (Arts Residencies in Schools grants) confirming whether generative AI meaningfully shaped the application, work sample or support materials. [1][2]
- If AI was used, say which sections it affected, which tool you used and why, and how you used it. For AI used in work samples, say what the tool generated or changed and what you contributed. [2]
What is off limits
- Do not submit work samples entirely generated by AI. Applicants must submit original work, and entirely AI-generated samples are not original work. [2]
Rules for reviewers
- The pages give no rules for panelists on using AI in review. They say disclosure gives staff and panelists context and helps panelists apply the published review criteria. [2]
Where this comes from
The funder's own words, from its own pages.
FY27 Wheaton Cultural Project Grants Guidelines (opens in a new tab)
4. AI Disclosure Statement
• A short statement in response to specific questions confirming whether generative AI meaningfully shaped your application, work sample, or support materials. You are not required or expected to use AI, and disclosure by itself will not increase or decrease a score.
FY27 Arts Residencies in Schools Grants (ARSG) Narrative Template (opens in a new tab)
The use of AI is permitted to aid an applicant’s creative/scholarly process however, work samples entirely generated by AI are not eligible.
Work samples entirely generated by AI are not eligible. Applicants are required to submit original work.
Work samples created with the support of AI tools are eligible for consideration when AI supports the artist’s/scholar’s vision, creative actions, and the artist/scholar retains primary creative and intellectual control.
Work samples that are entirely generated by AI are not considered to be original work.
Disclosure provides context for staff and panelists, helping staff and panelists understand the applicant’s work, while also helping panelist’s to apply the published review criteria appropriately.
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This is a reading of what the funder has published, and it is not legal advice. A solicitation can set its own rule, so read the funding announcement before a PI applies.