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AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

Annual American computer-science prize

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.

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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]

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References

  1. [1]
    "AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity". AAAI Awards. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Regina Barzilay wins $1M Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI award". news.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  3. [3]
    "Duke Computer Scientist Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize, A 'New Nobel'". news.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  4. [4]
    "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.
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