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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?

This is AI2050’s motivating question.

The initiative aims to answer this question by making awards to support work conducted by researchers from across the globe and at various stages in their careers, bringing them together into an interdisciplinary community, and conducting research into the hard problems in artificial intelligence.

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AI2050 Fellows

Exceptional people working on the key opportunities and hardest problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.

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News + Perspectives

Schmidt Sciences awards $18M to researchers working to ensure AI benefits society

November 5, 2025

Community Perspective - Daniel Rock

September 8, 2025

Community Perspective - Jacob Steinhardt

August 18, 2025

Community Perspective - Gege Wen

August 16, 2025

Schmidt Sciences awards $10 million for AI safety research

February 18, 2025

MIT affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

December 13, 2024

Schmidt Sciences Announces Its Newest Cohort Of 25 AI Fellows

December 12, 2024

Community Perspective - Adji Bousso Dieng

August 11, 2023

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI announce Executive Director of the Frontier Model Forum and over $10 million for a new AI Safety Fund

October 25, 2023

AI is About to Make Social Media (Much) More Toxic

May 5, 2023

African Business: How we can create an environment for AI investments and partnerships in Africa

March 21, 2024

Community Perspective - Anima Anandkumar

October 31, 2024

Does One Large Model Rule Them All?

April 4, 2023

Eric Schmidt: This is how AI will transform the way science gets done

July 5, 2023

MIT Technology Review: Why America needs an Apollo program for the age of AI

May 13, 2024

Mustafa Suleyman and Eric Schmidt: We need an AI equivalent of the IPCC

October 19, 2023

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AI2050 is a philanthropic initiative of Schmidt Sciences, conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, that aims to support exceptional people working on key opportunities and hard problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.

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