{"id":8868,"date":"2026-06-02T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/?p=8868"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:06:42","slug":"new-nih-guidance-on-use-of-ai-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/2026\/06\/02\/new-nih-guidance-on-use-of-ai-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"New NIH Guidance on Use of AI \u2013 June 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released an article titled <a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/news-events\/nih-extramural-nexus-news\/2026\/05\/helpful-reminders-to-ensure-integrity-of-nih-supported-research-when-using-artificial-intelligence\">Helpful Reminders to Ensure Integrity of NIH-Supported Research When Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) (external link)<\/a> regarding \u201cthe appropriate use of AI tools when applying, managing awards, and conducting the research process itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new guidance goes hand in hand with a <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/2025\/07\/25\/nih-notice-research-misconduct-risks-of-ai\/\">previously shared NIH notice, NOT-OD-25-132<\/a>, which describes potential research misconduct risks of using AI in generating research applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All NIH researchers are encouraged to review this article. It may also provide helpful context for other researchers, as more funding agencies will likely release their own AI guidance in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on AI at U海角社区, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.umaine.edu\/\">U海角社区 AI website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on research misconduct, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/research-misconduct\/\">Office of Research Compliance\u2019s Research Misconduct website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released an article titled Helpful Reminders to Ensure Integrity of NIH-Supported Research When Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) (external link) regarding \u201cthe appropriate use of AI tools when applying, managing awards, and conducting the research process itself.\u201d This new guidance goes hand in hand with a previously shared NIH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":5},"categories":[165,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":165,"label":"AI"},{"value":5,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"cdoiron","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/author\/cdoiron\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":165,"name":"AI","slug":"ai","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":165,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":165,"category_count":3,"category_description":"","cat_name":"AI","category_nicename":"ai","category_parent":0},{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":62,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":62,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8872,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8868\/revisions\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}