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Five MIT faculty and two alumni named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Schmidt Sciences named five MIT faculty members and two MIT alumni to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows, a philanthropic program co‑chaired by Eric Schmidt focused on identifying research that would help ensure AI is hugely beneficial by 2050. MIT fellows mentioned include Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang and Manish Raghavan; projects cited in the announcement include Mullainathan's Bike Shop@MIT (human-centered AI), Damian's work on effective model training, Flanigan's work on gathering structured public input, and Hwang's research on determining biological enzyme functions.
KEY POINTS
- Schmidt Sciences named five MIT faculty members and two MIT alumni to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows, a philanthropic program co‑chaired by Eric Schmidt focused on identifying research that would help ensure AI is hugely beneficial by 2050.
- MIT fellows mentioned include Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang and Manish Raghavan; projects cited in the announcement include Mullainathan's Bike Shop@MIT (human-centered AI), Damian's work on effective model training, Flanigan's work on gathering structured public input, and Hwang's research on determining biological enzyme functions.
- The fellowship awards direct philanthropic resources to MIT researchers working on human-centered, mathematical, political and biological AI problems that aim to shape long-term beneficial AI outcomes.
WHY IT MATTERS
The fellowship awards direct philanthropic resources to MIT researchers working on human-centered, mathematical, political and biological AI problems that aim to shape long-term beneficial AI outcomes.