#AAAI2023 invited talk: Tuomas Sandholm on organ exchanges

Tuomas Sandholm is the winner of the 2023 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. This award recognizes positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways. Tuomas delivered an invited talk at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, during which he spoke about the work that won him the award – using algorithms for organ exchanges. Kidney disease is becoming more prevalent in the world, and, in the USA alone, over 90,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant. This waiting list keeps growing year on year.