MIT Affiliates Win 7 AI2050 Fellowships for 2026 Research on Human-Centered AI
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Updated · MIT News · Oct 30
MIT Affiliates Win 7 AI2050 Fellowships for 2026 Research on Human-Centered AI
2 articles · Updated · MIT News · Oct 30
Summary
Seven MIT affiliates—five faculty members and two alumni—were named to Schmidt Sciences’ 2026 AI2050 Fellows cohort, with Sendhil Mullainathan selected as a Senior Fellow.
The program backs research aimed at making AI broadly beneficial by 2050, and the MIT-linked projects span model training, public-input systems for lawmakers, enzyme-function discovery, and the social effects of widespread AI use.
Mullainathan’s project focuses on turning AI-detected patterns into testable theories, while Early Career Fellows Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang, and Manish Raghavan each target a distinct technical or societal AI challenge.
MIT alumni Irene Chen and Allison Z. Koenecke, along with former postdoc Juan Carlos Perdomo, were also named Early Career Fellows, extending MIT’s presence across the 2026 cohort.