The ERC has supported frontier research into and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) since its inception and sees that recent advances, particularly in Generative AI, will bring profound changes both to society at large and the research process.

The ERC Scientific Council recognises that researchers regularly seek input from AI technologies or human third parties, for example to brainstorm or generate ideas, to search the literature, and to revise, translate or summarise text.

The Scientific Council emphasises that use of external help in preparing a proposal does not relieve the author from taking full and sole authorship responsibilities with regard to acknowledgements, plagiarism and the practice of good scientific and professional conduct.

The ERC is following the fast developments in the area, and will renew its policies as needed.