November 3–5, 2026 · Florence, Italy. The community's first gathering around The System.

November 3–5, 2026 · Florence, Italy. The community's first gathering around The System.

“Our country needs a new consensus on how to support science,” write Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

November 3–5, 2026 · Florence, Italy. The community's first gathering around The System.

George Washington Died Not Knowing Dinosaurs Existed. Three Centuries Later, Science Has Never Needed More Defense.

Schmidt Sciences’ Virtual Institute for Earth's Water (VIEW), is an interdisciplinary, international scientific program focused on advancing our understanding of global freshwater availability and…

Institute Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nobel Laureate in Economics (2024); Faculty Co-Director, MIT Stone Center on Inequality and the Future of Work

The Rare Pachycephalosaurus Fossil Will Be Temporarily Displayed at the National Museum of Natural History During the Holiday Season

The trolley problem is a well-known philosophical thought experiment: would you pull a lever to redirect a speeding trolley, sacrificing one person to save five?Would you feel differently about the…

Schmidt Sciences has announced its AI2050 Fellows for 2025. This year’s cohort consists of 28 recipients, including 7 senior scholars and 21 early career investigators.

Media Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org                   NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences announced today that 28 scholars studying how to fulfill AI’s potential to dramatically benefit…

The discovery of a possible “super-Earth” less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an…

Predictive AI models are responsible for consequential decisions. They approve consumer loans, make treatment recommendations in healthcare, and even guide public policy. For Amanda Coston, this…

Creating robots that can interact with the world just as humans do is many AI scientists’ dream—but for Fei-Fei Li, how we realize that goal is just as important as achieving it. As a pioneering AI…

Seeking Signs of Life on Venus: The first private mission to the morning star will explore the planet’s clouds.

Creating a Cosmic Movie: How will astronomers make sense of a new era of nearly limitless data from the Rubin Observatory?

If you’ve ever made a mistake, chances are, you’ve been asked to explain yourself. While people can easily understand how and why decisions led to something going wrong, Hima Lakkaraju’s research…

Globe-spanning interdisciplinary teams will dramatically improve climate modeling to drive better energy, environmental, economic decision making Contact: Carlie Wiener, cwiener@schmidtsciences.org…

While the prospect of working on unfamiliar, complex challenges, often with limited resources, might overwhelm most technologists, Wang isn’t intimidated. “It’s an opportunity to design AI solutions…

As an academic researcher, Donti builds algorithms for grids powered by renewable energy, combining her long-held aspiration to work on climate solutions with her background in computer science. As a…

Rock asks how, and how much, AI technology will impact the many tasks that comprise a given job — each one may be affected to different extents, changing a job in more nuanced ways than completely…

Q&A with Gege Wen, AI2050 Early Career Fellow

Ice-sheet surface melting impacts sea level and ice dynamics. Now two studies provide a wake-up call for monitoring melt in Antarctica.

Q&A with Danish Pruthi, AI2050 Early Career Fellow

UK AISI, Canada AISI, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, and others collaborate to offer grants, computational power and venture capital to build trust in AI MEDIA CONTACT: Carlie…

Everyone makes mistakes — it’s an unavoidable part of learning something new. With the appropriate guidance, being corrected is often a valuable learning opportunity, a chance to identify where we…

As legislation and policy for AI is developed, we are making decisions about the societal values AI systems should uphold. But how do we trust that AI systems are abiding by human values such as…