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MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

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MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

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?”

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 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 serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation, is affiliated with the NBER and BREAD, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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