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The AI2050 Fellowship recognizes researchers working on hard, long-horizon questions about beneficial AI, with a focus on societal outcomes rather than near-term products. For AI readers, the list is a useful signal of which research directions and interdisciplinary approaches (here, behavioral economics and human-centered AI) are gaining institutional backing, though a fellowship alone says little about the impact of the work itself.
MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni were recently named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows. The honor is announced annually by Schmidt Sciences, Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s philanthropic initiative that aims to accelerate scientific innovation. Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative aimed at helping to solve hard problems in artificial intelligence. Within their research, each fellow will contend with the central motivating question of AI2050: “It’s 2050. AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to…
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