David Rolnick

David Rolnick

David Rolnick awarded 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship

“While AI gets so much attention nowadays, it’s often grandiose projections about the future, rather than practical tools designed to make people’s lives better right now,” said Rolnick. “I am very grateful for this recognition by the Sloan Foundation of the importance of cross-disciplinary, application-driven AI.”

Rolnick is co-founder and chair of the nonprofit organization Climate Change AI and is the Scientific Co-director of the Concordia-based think tank Sustainability in the Digital Age.

Rolnick has also played a key role in shaping public policy. In 2021, he co-led a report for OECD’s Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) that provided recommendations to governments that have helped shape such policies as the EU AI Act and was a featured speaker on AI and sustainability at the recent AI Action Summit in Paris.”

Published by Christine Pallon, McGillReporter, McGill University

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