Grant agencies flooded with applications — and admins haven't connected the dots to AI
wandedob · x · 2026-10-28
wandedob shares that a grants administrator asked him why funding agencies receive far more applications than a few years ago — apparently unaware that AI has made writing proposals trivially easy. A telling anecdote about AI quietly straining the academic funding system.
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