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AI2050 Early Career Fellowship is sponsored by Schmidt Sciences. Provides enabling support for early-career researchers to pursue bold and ambitious multidisciplinary work on hard problems in artificial intelligence.
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Schmidt Sciences invites proposals for the 2026 Science of Trustworthy AI RFP, funding technical research that advances the science of building trustworthy AI systems. The program addresses three interconnected research aims: understanding why frontier AI systems develop misaligned goals that fail under distribution shift or pressure (Aim 1), creating valid evaluations and interventions to control what AI systems learn (Aim 2), and developing oversight mechanisms for superhuman AI capabilities and managing multi-agent risks (Aim 3). Beyond direct funding, awardees receive computing resources including GPUs and CPUs, software engineering support, API credits with frontier model providers, and access to a research community. The program is open globally and encourages cross-institutional and cross-geographic collaborations. Indirect costs are capped at 10% of total direct costs.
Cooperative AI Research Grants is sponsored by Cooperative AI Foundation, Google DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), and Google.org. A technical research funding call for researchers worldwide, focusing on the study of how large-scale multi-agent AI systems behave as a group, and how to provide frameworks to understand and mitigate potential risks.
The AI2050 Early Career Fellows program supports bold and ambitious work on difficult challenges as well as promising opportunities in AI. Fellows receive funding plus non-monetary support, such as connections to stakeholders to help them amplify impact. The program selects 15-20 early-career researchers around the world annually through a rigorous process. Research is framed by the central question: 'It's 2050. AI has turned out to be hugely beneficial to society. What happened?' Recent cohorts have included researchers across computer science, philosophy, economics, political science, earth sciences, and humanities working on AI safety, AI policy, fairness, AI for science, sociotechnical AI, and human-AI interaction. The 2025 round awarded $18M across 25 fellows.
Schmidt Sciences' AI2050 program, founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, funds Senior and Early Career Fellows working on the hard problems in AI that must be solved by 2050 to make AI beneficial for society. The program tackles a curated set of hard problems including scaling beneficial AI, AI safety and alignment, AI for scientific discovery, AI and labor markets, AI and democracy, and AI for under-resourced communities. Senior Fellowships provide approximately $375K over three years; Early Career Fellowships provide approximately $300K over two years. In 2025, AI2050 distributed $18M across 28 scholars. Fellows join a structured cohort with annual convenings, cross-fellow collaborations, and access to a wider Schmidt Sciences research network. AI2050 is one of several active Schmidt Sciences AI funding mechanisms, alongside the Science of Trustworthy AI RFP, the Interpretability RFP, and the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute.
Schmidt Sciences opened a 'Scaling AI Safety for a Multi-Agent World' program with awards up to $1 million and an August 8, 2026 deadline. Against a backdrop of federal research slowdowns, here is why private science philanthropy matters more than ever, how these funders differ from federal agencies, and how researchers should approach them.
Read articleSchmidt Sciences' 2026 Science of Trustworthy AI RFP closes May 17 with two funding tiers — up to $1M (Tier 1) and $1–5M+ (Tier 2) over 1–3 years, with a 10% indirect cost cap. The three research aims target misalignment under distribution shift, predictive-validity evaluations, and oversight of superhuman systems. Here is why the structure favors team-based proposals.
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