The first choice of the project name, AI Internet-Meritocracy was bad, because its abbreviation AIIM is already used by several other projects.
So, by Victor Porton’s decision it was renamed to SciWard: an allusion of “reward” and a ward protecting science.
Also, earlier, it was planned to rewrite AIIM as a fully on-chain ICP blockchain app. But this failed, because ORCID.org does not support PKCE OAuth standard (we can’t store client_secret in the blockchain, because it is insecure and need PKCE). So, our app is released as a Node.js + PostgreSQL app, not a decentralized app (sadly).
With help of ChatGPT, the site was updated to replace both AIIM and Science DAO to SciWard. If ChatGPT forgot to rename some occurrence, please contact us by leaving a comment under this page.
The domain remains to be science-dao.org, despite it isn’t a DAO.
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.