In short
Schmidt Sciences has published no rules on whether applicants may use AI to prepare proposals. Its AI Use and Guidance statement covers how the funder and its reviewers handle submissions. Neither will upload confidential proposals to public AI tools that may retain them or train on them. Schmidt Sciences may use enterprise-grade, privacy-preserving AI tools to help administer and evaluate proposals.
Reviewer rules only. The funder has rules for reviewers and has published none for applicants.
For applicants
Schmidt Sciences has published no rules for applicants.
For reviewers
- Schmidt Sciences and its reviewers will not upload confidential proposals, applications, review materials, or related information to public tools. These are tools that may retain the information, use it to train or improve their models, or disclose it to third parties. [1]
- Schmidt Sciences may use enterprise-grade, privacy-preserving AI tools to support the administration, analysis, and evaluation of proposals. Such tools must operate under appropriate contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards. These include commitments that submitted content will not be used to train external models or shared outside authorized Schmidt Sciences processes. [1]
Sources
Schmidt Sciences AI Use and Guidance (opens in a new tab)
Schmidt Sciences and its reviewers will not upload confidential proposals, applications, review materials, or related information to publicly available tools that may retain submitted information, use it to train or improve their models, or otherwise disclose it to third parties.
Because we review thousands of proposals each year, Schmidt Sciences may use enterprise-grade, privacy-preserving AI tools to support the administration, analysis, and evaluation of proposals and applications.
Such tools must operate under appropriate contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards, including commitments that submitted content will not be used to train external models or shared outside authorized Schmidt Sciences processes.
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