Schmidt Sciences AI Use and Guidance
Sep 2, 2026
Schmidt Sciences is a nonprofit organization founded in 2024 by Eric and Wendy Schmidt that works to accelerate scientific knowledge and breakthroughs with the most promising, advanced tools to support a thriving planet. Consistent with this mission, we encourage grantees purchasing AI compute resources, GPUs, or cloud-based AI services to consider environmental sustainability, human rights, transparency, and sound stewardship of natural resources. Relevant considerations include the use of carbon-free energy, energy efficiency, water stewardship, science-based climate commitments, human rights due diligence, and public sustainability reporting.
Schmidt Sciences and its reviewers will not upload confidential proposals, applications, review materials, or related information to publicly available tools that may retain submitted information, use it to train or improve their models, or otherwise disclose it to third parties. Because we review thousands of proposals each year, Schmidt Sciences may use enterprise-grade, privacy-preserving AI tools to support the administration, analysis, and evaluation of proposals and applications. Such tools must operate under appropriate contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards, including commitments that submitted content will not be used to train external models or shared outside authorized Schmidt Sciences processes.
To proactively address concerns about inundation, Schmidt Sciences will accept no more than two new proposals per open request for proposals from the same Principal Investigator in a calendar year.