My question would be, if this is valuable to you why don’t you add your own capability to your forum? I would expect researchers to be leveraging the tech already, but using trusted and curated agents not just throwing information and data out for any random agent or service to process.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, so when someone offers a free service inevitably you and your data is the product being sold. This is how social media works.
In our own AI efforts we have found it is better to provide your own services than invite in others whose intentions and data governance is not fully transparent.
Discourse provides all the enablers for this and for you to retain control and visibility.