Dawn Song selected as an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences

Professor Dawn Song was selected as a 2025 AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences. The fellowship honors researchers advancing responsible innovation and the development of AI that benefits humanity. This year’s cohort includes 28 researchers from eight countries who will receive more than $18 million to advance their research in beneficial AI.

Schmidt Sciences announced that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit humankind are eligible to receive more than $18 million in AI2050 fellowships. The researchers will pursue efforts to solve challenging problems in AI by building AI scientists, designing safer and more trustworthy AI models and improving the ability of AI to pursue biological and medical research.  The AI2050 program funds researchers to pursue projects to help AI create immense benefits for humanity by 2050. Twenty-one early career fellows and seven senior fellows will receive funding over the next three years. This marks the fourth cohort of the program, which now has 99 fellows across eight countries and 42 institutions. 

Dawn Song is a Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence. Her research interest lies in AI safety and security, Agentic AI, deep learning, security and privacy, and decentralization technology. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and more than 10 Test-of-Time Awards and Best Paper Awards from top conferences in Computer Security and Deep Learning.