This is awful, and quite possibly against the funder’s own guidance on assessment, but also why did they think itvwas needed first place? I’ve been on plenty of grant panels that had to review more than 179 applications.
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky