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U.K. funder uses AI triage to reject half of grant proposals

Proposal rejected by AI triage; CRANE has suspended those decisions and ordered a human re-review

CRANE has scrapped the AI screening that rejected about 90 of its 179 cybersecurity grant proposals. The U.K. network apologized for not being transparent, suspended its funding decisions, and said every proposal cut by the AI will now go to human reviewers, with final decisions promised by 20 November.

Updated Oct 19

Notable Quotes

It's depressing that I wrote something that no one ever read before it was rejected.

from U.K. funder uses AI triage to reject half of grant proposals · Updated Oct 19

You sort of end up wondering, well, what actually counted for us or against us in this process?

from U.K. funder uses AI triage to reject half of grant proposals · Updated Oct 19