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 society. What happened? What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities we realized to ensure this outcome?” AI2050 Senior Fellow Sendhil Mullainathan is the Peter de Florez Professor at MIT with dual appointments in the departments of Economics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who is also a principal investigator at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. His current research is at the intersection of algorithms and people, with a central focus on launching The Bike Shop@MIT, a new research center that works toward more human-centered AI through scalable bicycles for the mind, and innovative new gears for machine learning algorithms. Mullainathan is the co-founder of...

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 society. What happened? What are the most important problems we solved and the opportunities and possibilities we realized to ensure this outcome?” AI2050 Senior Fellow Sendhil Mullainathan is the Peter de Florez Professor at MIT with dual appointments in the departments of Economics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who is also a principal investigator at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. His current research is at the intersection of algorithms and people, with a central focus on launching The Bike Shop@MIT, a new research center that works toward more human-centered AI through scalable bicycles for the mind, and innovative new gears for machine learning algorithms. Mullainathan is the co-founder of...

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 are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

Juan Carlos Perdomo is an assistant professor of computer science and data science at NYU. His research focuses on the foundations of machine learning systems that make predictions or decisions about…

David Danks, professor of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and data science at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a $1 million three-year senior fellowship for […]

David Danks, professor of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and data science at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a $1 million three-year senior fellowship for […]

David Danks, professor of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and data science, at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a $1 million three-year senior fellowship for […]

David Danks, professor of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and data science at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a $1 million three-year senior fellowship for […] The post Philosopher Among New AI2050 Senior Fellows appeared first on Daily Nous.

David Danks, professor of philosophy, artificial intelligence, and data science at the University of Virginia, has been awarded a $1 million three-year senior fellowship for […]

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, has been named by Schmidt Sciences as a 2026 AI2050 Senior Fellow. Nelson is one of six senior researchers to receive this $...

Supported by up to $16 million over three years, the fifth cohort of 28 AI2050 Fellows will address the most important long-term problems in AI which need to be solved for AI to be truly beneficial to...

Alondra Nelson studies how people build, marshal, and live through new scientific and technological developments, and traces what that work makes possible or forecloses for life chances and democratic...