Adoption context · General science

NSF restricts generative AI use in merit review

NSF restricts generative AI use in merit review: context signal for AI-enabled research infrastructure, adoption, policy, or field diffusion.

Summary

NSF issued guidance on generative AI in the merit review process. It prohibited reviewers from uploading proposal content, review information or related records to non-approved generative AI tools, and encouraged proposers to indicate whether and how generative AI was used in proposal preparation.

AI role

AI is the object of institutional, policy, funding, adoption, or field-level measurement across general science.

Narrative role

This is context evidence: it shows the institutional, data, compute, infrastructure, policy, or diffusion conditions around AI-enabled science.

Caveat

This is an enabling, adoption, or governance signal, not direct evidence of accelerated discovery.