# MIT faculty and alumni named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

> Original title: MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

- Source: MIT News · AI
- Published: 2026-10-30T20:15:00.000Z
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- Original: https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-affiliates-named-schmidt-sciences-ai2050-fellows-1030

## Summary

Five MIT faculty members and two alumni were named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows, an annual honor announced by Schmidt Sciences. The fellows include Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang and Manish Raghavan, plus alumni Irene Chen and Allison Z. Koenecke and former postdoc Juan Carlos Perdomo. Each fellow works on an AI2050 project tied to the initiative's question of what AI should achieve by 2050.