REvaluation week podcast episode: “Does AI really save work in evaluation?”

In december last year, the REvaluation Conference 2024 took place in Vienna, Austria. The event focused on the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapidly changing landscape of research and innovation policy and its implications for assessment and evaluation. This week, REvaluation is sharing recorded panel discussions and keynote speeches in their REvaluation Podcast, including a talk by MERL Tech Initiative’s Founder, Linda Raftree.

The MERL community is varied in its attitudes toward GenAI. Some are rushing to embrace and adopt it, at times uncritically. Others are avoiding GenAI altogether, often influenced by concerns about AI’s practical utility and issues related to ethics. In this podcast episode (created based on Linda’s talk during the conference), Linda elaborates, with real world examples, on how and where GenAI is being used in the MERL space. She also examines how and why the wider AI boom is affecting our societies and our planet to spur us to think critically about AI in our work and in the world and to re-examine the role of Evaluators as users and assessors of AI. In case you’re interested, here are Linda’s presentation slides.

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Throughout this week, REvaluation Podcast will publish a new episode every day. So, if you missed the Conference last year, or like to revisit one or two interesting discussions, this is your opportunity to tune in.