Use of artificial intelligence in funding applications

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Use of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence in fund­ing applications

Arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) is becom­ing more pre­val­ent in all our lives and can be a use­ful tool for com­ple­tion of fund­ing applications.

We will not reject an applic­a­tion that is com­posed wholly or par­tially using AI, but we recom­mend that you:

• acknow­ledge the use of AI tool in the applic­a­tion, unless it is used for trans­lat­ing from oth­er lan­guages. This will have no influ­ence on the decision-mak­ing process
• be cau­tious of what inform­a­tion you share, as some AI tools will store the inform­a­tion you input. Be aware of data pro­tec­tion legislation
• ensure the inform­a­tion gen­er­ated is not mis-lead­ing, is accur­ate, and related to the outcomes/​themes of the grant being applied for
• make it per­son­al by edit­ing AI-gen­er­ated con­tent to reflect your own exper­i­ences, skills, and make sure your sub­mit­ted applic­a­tion is clear about what your pro­ject needs or hopes for and how your pro­ject will fit the spe­cif­ic cri­ter­ia and object­ives of our grant funding

If using an AI tool to sup­port your applic­a­tion, you should be aware that:

• use of AI has Envir­on­ment­al impact*: Use AI mind­fully, only use AI where it will clearly help you apply or sig­ni­fic­antly improve the qual­ity of your application
• errors or inac­curacies in an applic­a­tion as a res­ult of using AI will not be accep­ted as cause for review of our decision on your application

The decision to use AI is yours. It can be help­ful tool, and we sug­gest that you use it with caution.

Applic­a­tions are reviewed by our staff teams, and AI is not used by any review­ers or pan­el mem­bers dur­ing the decision-mak­ing process.

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Fur­ther information

A selec­tion of wider inform­a­tion on the use of AI tools and their use in grant applic­a­tions is avail­able through the fol­low­ing links. This inform­a­tion is offered to help you con­sider your use of AI in mak­ing grant applic­a­tions to the Cairngorms Nation­al Park Author­ity. The Park Author­ity is not endors­ing or oth­er­wise mak­ing com­ment on the valid­ity of the pos­i­tions taken in high­light­ing their availability.

*UN envir­on­ment programme(2025) AI has an envir­on­ment­al prob­lem. Here’s what the world can do about that.

Using Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence tools in fund­ing applic­a­tions | The Nation­al Lot­tery Com­munity Fund

Code of prac­tice for the Grants Pro­gramme — RGS