Guidance on Use of AI for the IRB Submission Process

Ohio University's research compliance office places no blanket limit on using generative AI to prepare an IRB submission, and instead names nine specific ways it goes wrong, including regulatory answers that describe another university's rules, consent forms missing federally required elements, and contradictory answers to the same question across different parts of one application. Reading the list before you draft is far more useful than a prohibition, because each failure is one you can check for deliberately. You will finish knowing exactly which parts of your own submission to reread with suspicion.

Task

Ethics & compliance

Time

10 min

Level

beginner

Cost

Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.

Tools

None in particular

Published

Not dated