AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

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; 3 years ago (February 2021)
Last awardedFebruary 2024
Websiteaaai.org/Awards/squirrel-ai-award.php

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 $25000. Funding is provided by the Chinese online education company Squirrel AI.

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]

  1. ^ a b c "AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity". AAAI Awards. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Regina Barzilay wins $1M Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI award". news.mit.edu. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
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