AI2050 issues awards to support work conducted by researchers. These awards primarily aim to enable and encourage bold and ambitious work, often multi-disciplinary, that is typically hard to fund but socially beneficial. Awards are given for exceptional work tackling one or multiple items from a working list of hard problems. AI2050 awards are selected using a closed nominations process, so there is no application.

AI2050 shares research findings from our Fellows. Work supported by AI2050 is open-source and published, so that society can benefit from this important work. This includes research from the award recipient network, from our collaborations with leading groups, and from the initiative itself.

AI2050 Fellows come from around the globe. Through this initiative, we support talented researchers at various stages of their careers, to help encourage the next generation of researchers to focus on the hard problems in AI. AI2050 Fellows, the broader AI community, and other stakeholders regularly convene to discuss and advance the work of the initiative.