MIT affiliates joining the AI2050 Fellows program signals significant institutional commitment to solving critical artificial intelligence challenges through targeted, high-level research.
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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 FellowSendhil 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 ideas42, a nonprofit to apply behavioral science; MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which promotes the use of randomized control trials in development; and Dandelion Health, which combines proprietary AI tools with real-world patient data. He's the co-author of "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much."Among other awards, he is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant”; has been designated a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum; was labeled a “Top 100 Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine; and was named to the “Smart List: 50 people who will change the world” by Wired Magazine (U.K.). He serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation, is
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