HHS and Artificial Intelligence for Grant Selection

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has begun using artificial intelligence tools provided by Palantir and the startup Credal AI starting in March 2025. The stated goal is to screen grant applications, identifying and discarding those that show alignment with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives or with concepts related to gender ideology.

The implementation of these tools raises important questions about the use of AI in government decision-making, particularly regarding transparency, accountability, and the potential for introducing biases into the evaluation criteria. The use of algorithms to filter grants could lead to excluding valid projects based on subjective interpretations or biases embedded in the algorithms themselves.

For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are trade-offs to consider. AI-RADAR offers analytical frameworks on /llm-onpremise to evaluate these aspects.