SciWard asks AI to estimate relative contribution among participants, and gives them the proportional share of donated cryptocurrency as a salary streamed every week. To evaluate the worth of a user, the AI uses securely connected user accounts (GitHub, ORCID, etc.) to retrieve information about user’s scientific and free software works.
To prevent prompt injection attacks to succeed, SciWard allows registered users to vote for banning (or unbanning) a malefactor user.
To vote and receive crypto, the users need to pass KYC (with AML preventing, for example, users from North Korea to receive money).
Note that users need only connect to connect their accounts, to become eligible for grants, without any grant writing.
The Purpose of SciWard
SciWard has two main purposes:
- Give a stable income to every open source software or science author, without discrimination on whether they have a PhD.
- Solve scientific publishing crisis, by giving money to promoters of underrepresented scientific works – creating new occupation – science marketers. Solving the publishing crisis will free billions of dollars of direct losses (1), multiplied by ~1000x efficiency of investing into science, it is recovering trillions of dollars of losses.
Help Turn SciWard’s Beta into Evidence
SciWard remains experimental. The next proposed milestone is a five-month public adversarial test, with $1,000 planned for distribution to eligible funding recipients. Donations support the work required to run and evaluate that test.
Fund the public test → Test proposal → Independent review →
AI-generated evaluations can contain factual errors or biases;. Public testing, auditability, and external criticism remain part of the project.