The Institute's Management Group has approved a new policy on the use of AI by applicants and Fellows. This policy assists applicants and Fellows in the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in responsible, safe, and ethical ways while maximising opportunities to create benefits for researchers.
IASH recognises the value of GenAI and its potential to help applicants in the process of creating a Fellowship proposal. The Institute welcomes developments in this area to enhance opportunities for, among others, brainstorming ideas through prompts; obtaining background information or proofreading; structuring and editing draft documents; getting explanations of difficult ideas, questions and concepts; self-tutoring through conversation with the GenAI tool; organising and summarising work notes; summarising a text, article or book where the copyright owner permits use of GenAI for this purpose; helping to improve grammar, spelling, and writing; translation of texts from or into other languages; overcoming writer’s block through dialogue with the GenAI tool; help with structuring, writing, and de-bugging code; planning and organising a work schedule.
While these opportunities can be transformative, they are unable to replicate human creative and critical thinking. Our policy on the use of AI technology has therefore been developed to help applicants to make good judgements about the ethical use of such technology.
The Policy can be read here.