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For nearly a decade, Partnership on AI (PAI) has worked with our community of tech industry, civil society, and academic organizations to advance responsible and ethical AI.
This work is done as a collaborative–but it is only possible with the leadership of individuals both within our organization and Board, and across our constellation of partners. Last year, PAI granted inaugural ChangeMaker Awards to four individuals whose leadership and accomplishments have positively impacted our Partnership and the broader responsible AI field.
I am proud to share the 2025 recipients of PAI’s ChangeMaker Awards:
- Jerremy Holland, Director of AI Research at Apple and PAI Board Chair
- Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow, Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance and Founding PAI Board Director
Francesca Rossi with her ChangeMaker award
Jerremy Holland receiving the ChangeMaker award at the 2025 PAI Partner Forum
Both Jerremy and Francesca embody the spirit of the ChangeMaker Award with their contributions not only to PAI through their service, guidance, and leadership on our Board of Directors, but to the broader field through their dedication to advancing responsible and ethical AI through research and collaboration.
Chair of the PAI Board of Directors, Jerremy is a highly respected and award winning inventor, researcher and innovator. Leading an AI research group at Apple, he is passionate about his commitment to high quality, inclusive tech design that leaves no one behind. As one of the most engaged members of PAI’s Global Taskforce on Inclusive AI and an active volunteer in the Bay Area tech community, he is a vocal and enthusiastic champion of the values and mission on which PAI was founded.
One of the visionary founders of PAI, Francesca is an ethical AI global research leader and advocate for the benefits of responsible AI for businesses, people and communities. Francesca never hesitates to step up and start-up new research projects and expert groups at the highest levels of international collaboration. In 2025, she led the AAAI Presidential Panel on the Future of Research, a landmark report on the state of AI, current trends and open challenges.
In 2025, we are seeing AI development, deployment, and use that PAI’s founders may not have predicted in 2016. As PAI enters our tenth year, we continue to be focused on building a future where AI is developed with equity, humanity, and shared prosperity in mind. With the advice of changemakers across the PAI community, this anniversary year will be a time for us to reflect on our impact to date together and renew our commitment to the next generation.
Companies, civil society, government and academia all have important roles to play in determining what our AI future looks like. Join us, partner for impact, and make change happen.
Jerremy Holland
Director of AI Research at Apple and PAI Board Chair
Jerremy Holland
Jerremy is the Director of AI Research at Apple, where he leads the AI Research Group that engages in research of artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to autonomous systems, natural interaction, algorithms, tools, health, and wellness as part of Apple’s AI/ML organization. Earlier in his career at Apple, Jerremy led the Media Science Group where computer vision and machine intelligence were applied to camera and photo algorithms such as face detection & recognition, scene analysis, image auto-enhancement, and smart image adjustment.
Jerremy holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree from University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a member of the Organizing Committee for BayLearn, an annual machine learning symposium held in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Francesca Rossi
IBM Fellow, Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance and Founding PAI Board Director
Francesca Rossi
Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects. Her research interests focus on constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, collective decision making, and neuro-symbolic AI.
She co-chairs the IBM Responsible Technology board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on AI, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit, and the Global Partnership on AI. She is a AAAI and a EurAI fellow. She has been president of IJCAI and the Editor in Chief of JAIR. She has been a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on AI and the general chair of AAAI 2020. She is the past-president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.
“Since its inception, PAI has brought together a community that truly feels like an AI ethics family—uniting people with diverse experiences, expertise, cultures, and backgrounds. We’ve long believed that AI must be built and deployed responsibly, with fairness, transparency, inclusion, and human benefit at its center. PAI has been instrumental in advancing that mission, translating shared values into meaningful and impactful progress and helping shape a more trustworthy AI future. I feel very fortunate to have been part of PAI since its start, and to continue to have the opportunity to support its mission and the ongoing work to strengthen responsible AI.”
– Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance and PAI Founding Board Director