Congratulations to the #AAAI2025 award winners

A number of prestigious AAAI awards were presented during the official opening ceremony of the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025) on 27 February. Some of the winners will also be giving invited talks as part of the programme. The AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for Humanity recognises the positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects. The winner of this year's award is Stuart J. Russell (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Stuart has been recognised for "work on the conceptual and theoretical foundations of provably beneficial AI and his leadership in creating the field of AI safety".