AAAI AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

The AAAI AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity is an annual prize of US$25,000 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]

AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
Awarded forRecognizing positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life[1]
CountryUnited States
Presented byAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and Squirrel AI
Reward(s)US$25,000[1]
First awardedFebruary 2021 (February 2021)
Last awardedFebruary 2021
Websiteaaai.org/Awards/squirrel-ai-award.php

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

Year Recipient Rationale
2021 Regina BarzilayFor her work developing machine learning models to address drug synthesis and early-stage breast cancer diagnosis.[2]
2022 Cynthia RudinFor 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 SandholmFor outstanding scientific and software contributions to the design and implementation of organ exchanges, and their direct impact on both practice and policy.

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