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MIT's Beneficial AI Fellows Enter an Industry That Already Calls Everything Beneficial
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Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni have been named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows for research aimed at advancing beneficial AI. The fellowships recognize work intended to shape how the technology serves people. That is a serious research goal in a field where companies also compete to describe their products as helpful. The researchers receive recognition for investigating the future of AI, while the surrounding industry has already put the word beneficial to work in a great many presentations. The difference between a research program and a slogan is the work that follows. Fellows have a chance to study what benefits people and under what conditions, rather than merely add the adjective to a launch announcement. In a crowded market of promises, a fellowship for asking harder questions is a welcome interruption.
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