2025 Prize Recipient

Artificial intelligence and digital forensics expert Hany Farid has been named the winner of the 2025 McGuire Family Prize for Societal Impact. Farid served for two decades on Dartmouth’s faculty, where he pioneered the field of digital forensics. His innovations—including PhotoDNA, a technology deployed globally to identify and remove child exploitation imagery, and advanced deepfake detection technologies—have become essential tools for law enforcement, human rights advocates, and major tech companies including Microsoft and Google.

Hany Farid in Hanover

Hany Farid will visit campus at the end of February to accept this year's McGuire Prize for Societal Impact. His visit to the Upper Valley will include various opportunities for campus engagement. Farid will deliver a lecture on his research, and the future of AI, at the Grand Ballroom in the Hanover Inn on Friday February 27th at 11:00 A.M. This talk will be followed by a brief Q&A of audience questions, moderated by Dartmouth Computer Science Professor Soroush Vosoughi.

This lecture is open to the greater Dartmouth community-- please RSVP here to secure a spot.

Livestream

Hany Farid's lecture on his research and the future of AI will be live-streamed at 11:00 A.M. on Friday February 27th, 2026. A livestream of the lecture will be available here shortly before the lecture begins. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to our office (McGuire.Prize.Committee@dartmouth.edu).