AI in Funding: AFIRE Experimental Funders Group

Join us for the first session in the latest series of the AFIRE Experimental Funders Group. These workshops provide a dedicated space for research funders to delve into current issues, share experimental approaches, and discuss the future of research and innovation (R&I) funding.

The session focuses on the rapidly evolving landscape of Artificial Intelligence in the funding process.

Speakers

• Andrés F. Rodríguez, Impact and Learning Manager at Stanford Impact Labs (SIL), an impact-oriented research funder, will speak 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 will speak 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

Registration

If you are a research funder interested in how experimental methods can improve grant-making, please register via this link.

About AFIRE

RoRI’s AFIRE project aims to increase the volume and quality of funder experiments. By providing a venue for engagement and learning, we help the funding community build the evidence base needed to innovate with confidence.