ChangeMakers
Founded in 2024, PAI ChangeMakers brings together established and emerging leaders who are committed to the vision and mission of Partnership on AI. Many have been engaged with PAI for years, including since our founding in 2016. Members meet for in-person and virtual conversations around the crucial questions in creating AI that centers people first, prevents harm to the least powerful, and unlocks innovation for all. We are thankful for their inspiring leadership.
Award Honorees
The ChangeMaker Award honors extraordinary leadership in AI governance and a deep commitment to responsible AI. Recipients are members of PAI’s multi-stakeholder community who have championed projects addressing societal challenges, shaped public understanding of ethical AI, and built the cross-sector collaborations that make our work possible. Each has left a lasting mark on PAI’s trajectory and on the field.
Established in 2024, the award celebrates the people ensuring AI advances equity, justice, and innovation for all.
2025 Recipients
Learn more about these ChangeMakers
Jerremy Holland
Director of AI Research
Apple
Francesca Rossi
Fellow & AI Ethics Global Leader
IBM
2024 Recipients
Learn more about these ChangeMakers
Angela Glover Blackwell
Founder in Residence
PolicyLink
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer
Microsoft
Carol Rose
Executive Director
ACLU of Massachusetts
Eric Sears
Director of Technology in the Public Interest
MacArthur Foundation
Members
John Bailey
Non-resident Senior Fellow
American Enterprise Institute
Greg S. Corrado
Distinguished Scientist
William Covington
Emeritus Teaching Professor
Tech Policy Lab, University of Washington School of Law
Tino Cuéllar
Trustee
Anthropic Long Term Benefit Trust
Jason Furman
Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy
Harvard
Thore Graepel
Distinguished Research Scientist
Google DeepMind
Verity Harding
Founder
Formation Advisory Ltd
Ralf Herbrich
Professor
University of Potsdam
Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer
Microsoft
Yann LeCun
Executive Chairman & Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering
Advanced Machine Intelligence, New York University
James Manyika
President, Research, Labs, Technology & Society
Deirdre Mulligan
Professor
UC Berkeley School of Information
Craig Newmark
Founder
Craig Newmark Philanthropies
Tim O’Reilly
Founder and CEO
O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Joelle Pineau
Chief AI Officer
Cohere
Rohit Prasad
Founder and CEO
Stealth AI startup
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
OpenAI (Formerly)
Carol Rose
Executive Director
ACLU, Massachusetts
Francesca Rossi
Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance, IBM Fellow
IBM
Eric Sears
Director of Technology in the Public Interest
MacArthur Foundation
Dug Song
Co-Founder & CEO
Song United
Frank Torres
Fellow
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
