AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
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The AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity is an annual prize given by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence to recognize the positive impacts of AI to meaningfully improve, protect, and enhance human life. The award is presented annually at the AAAI conference in February.[1] In its first two years, the associated reward was US$1 million,[2][3] but has since been changed to $25,000. Funding is provided by the Chinese online education company Squirrel AI.
| AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Recognizing positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and Squirrel AI |
| Reward | US$25,000[1] |
| First award | February 2021 |
| Final award | February 2024 |
| Website | aaai |
The first recipient, in 2021, was Regina Barzilay of MIT for her work developing machine learning models to address drug synthesis and early-stage breast cancer diagnosis.[2]
Recipients
edit| Year | Recipient | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Regina Barzilay | For her work developing machine learning models to address drug synthesis and early-stage breast cancer diagnosis.[2] | |
| 2022 | .png) | Cynthia Rudin | For pioneering scientific work in the area of interpretable and transparent AI systems in real-world deployments, the advocacy for these features in highly sensitive areas such as social justice and medical diagnosis, and serving as a role model for researchers and practitioners.[3] |
| 2023 | Tuomas Sandholm | For outstanding scientific and software contributions to the design and implementation of organ exchanges, and their direct impact on both practice and policy.[4] | |
| 2024 | Milind Tambe | For ground-breaking applications of novel AI techniques to public safety and security, conservation, and public health, benefiting humanity on an international scale. | |
| 2025 | Stuart J. Russell | For his work on the conceptual and theoretical foundations of provably beneficial AI and his leadership in creating the field of AI safety.[5] | |
| 2026 | Shakir Mohammed | For significant contributions to maximizing social benefit by empowering communities worldwide to learn, contribute, debate, and shape how AI is used.[6] | |
See also
editReferences
edit- 1 2 3 "AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity". AAAI Awards. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- 1 2 3 "Regina Barzilay wins $1M Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI award". news.mit.edu. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- 1 2 "Duke Computer Scientist Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize, A 'New Nobel'". news.mit.edu. 12 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
- ↑ "Tuomas Sandholm of Carnegie Mellon University wins 2023 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity". AAAI. 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ↑ "AI to Benefit Humanity Press Release 2025" (PDF). AAAI. 2025-01-15. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ↑ "Shakir Mohammed (Google Deepmind) wins 2026 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity" (PDF). AAAI. 2025-12-03. Retrieved 2026-01-25.