Executive Summary

On March 26, 2025, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) and the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA), with support from the National Science Foundation, hosted a workshop in Washington, DC. We brought together 35 experts, researchers, and funders to explore opportunities and challenges in open science, metascience, and AI. This report summarizes the conversation that took place over two panel sessions, two guided group discussions, and a concluding synthesis session.

This report also aims to fill a gap identified by participants: the need for a clear agenda to inform and guide efforts at the intersection of metascience research, open science monitoring and impact assessment, and AI for research and science. To that end, we highlight priority research questions and feasible opportunities for collaborative work.

We thank the National Science Foundation—and specifically, the Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science program (CI PAOS) within the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure—for the support in planning and hosting this productive workshop.