Second Cohort of AI2050 Early Career Fellows Named By Schmidt Sciences

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Announces Schmidt Sciences' AI2050 second cohort of early career fellows funded to research AI safety, alignment, interpretability, and societal benefit — relevant as a funding and research landscape signal for the AI safety field.

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Schmidt Sciences announced 19 AI2050 Early Career Fellows for 2023, receiving up to $5.5 million to pursue multidisciplinary AI research across computer science, philosophy, economics, and other fields. Fellows address AI alignment, interpretability, robustness, economic impacts, and climate challenges. The program is part of a $125 million, five-year commitment by Eric and Wendy Schmidt to ensure AI benefits society by 2050.

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•19 early career researchers selected across 4 countries, 6 disciplines, and 17 institutions for two-year funded projects (up to $300K each).
•Research topics include AI alignment with human values, model robustness, interpretability of black-box AI, and economic/geographic disparities.
•Program is co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, framed around the question of what must happen for AI to be beneficial by 2050.
•Fellows work on AI2050's published 'Hard Problems in AI' list, targeting risky and multidisciplinary research underserved by traditional funding.
•Part of Schmidt Sciences' Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Institute supporting fundamental and applied AI research.

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 Schmidt Sciences | Mar 4, 2024 

 
 
 
 
 
 Nineteen Early Career Fellows Selected to Solve Challenges in Artificial Intelligence Through Multidisciplinary Research, With Up To $5.5 Million in Support from Schmidt Sciences 

 NEW YORK, March 4, 2024 — Today, Schmidt Sciences announced the second cohort of nineteen AI2050 Early Career Fellows who will pursue bold and multidisciplinary research in artificial intelligence (AI) for societal benefit across four countries, six disciplines, and seventeen institutions. The AI2050 Early Career Fellows are a part of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Institute at Schmidt Sciences, which supports fundamental research in AI, the application of AI and data science across a wide variety of disciplines, and the creation of high-impact research platforms that can speed discovery.  

 Conceived and co-chaired by Eric Schmidt and James Manyika, AI2050 advances Eric and Wendy Schmidt’s $125 million commitment over five years to identify and support talented individuals seeking solutions to ensure society benefits from AI. The AI2050 Early Career Fellowship encourages young researchers to pursue bold and ambitious work on difficult challenges as well as promising opportunities in AI, which often involves research that is multidisciplinary, risky, and hard to fund through traditional means. 15-20 early career researchers around the world are selected annually through a rigorous process. Early Career Fellows receive an award to support a two-year project as well as non-monetary support, such as connections to stakeholders to help them amplify impact. 

 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?”    

 Fellows will pull from their work across a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, economics, political science, earth sciences, and religion studies. Selected projects encompass ensuring advanced AI systems are aligned with human values, enhancing model robustness, improving the interpretability and transparency of black-box AI systems, understanding economic and disparate geographical considerations, examining the incentive structures behind content creation, and addressing climate-related challenges through AI-driven analysis of energy storage and greenhouse gas emissions, among others. 

 &#8220;Modern AI systems are rapidly scaling in both capabilities and impact, with the potential to unlock profound discoveries,&#8221; said Eric Schmidt, co-founder, with his wife Wendy, of Schmidt Sciences and AI2050 co-chair. &#8220;These AI2050 Early Career Fellows will tackle challenging issues in AI to uphol

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