Science DAO, unlike traditional research funding, provides flexible, transparent, and quick funding, not limited to science degree holders.
| Traditional funding | Science DAO |
| opaque review process: Universities, grant committees, science ministries in-between a researcher and funding, nobody knows how they make decisions. | fully transparent proposal evaluation: The full funding detail and AI reasoning are stored permanently. |
| slow grant distribution: It may pass over a year or more before receiving a grant. The receiver needs to write a grant proposal for every grant committee. | fast on-chain transfers, it takes less than 2 weeks before funds reach a researcher or free software developer. No need for grant writing. |
| PhDs only, institutional gatekeeping, orientation to institutional prestige. | Anyone who published research or free software is eligible for funding. |
| Review by committees that may be biased, politically engaged, even corrupted. | The decision is made by candid AI and moderated for scams by equal voting. |
Help Turn AIIM’s Beta into Evidence
AIIM 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; decentralized governance and non-custodial components remain under development. Public testing, auditability, and external criticism remain part of the project.