Horizon Europe has been overwhelmed with applications this year, with success rates for some calls dropping as low as 2%. National research funders are facing similar pressures.
For Christina Egelund, Denmark’s higher education and science minister, the cause is clear: artificial intelligence.
“Our public research foundations are being run over with possibly AI-generated applications, which, of course, is irritating for them, and also causes difficulties on different levels,” she told Science|Business on the margins of the EU’s AI in Science conference in Copenhagen last week.
Her country is already working on updating its code of research conduct to tackle the issue, she added, though she did not provide details on how this might be achieved.
The minister is not alone in her concerns. Consultants are also watching the trend with apprehension. Roberto Zanon, who has worked with…
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