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 visited campus at the end of February to accept this year's McGuire Prize for Societal Impact. He was able to engage with various campus constituencies while in the Upper Valley, including time with students at the DALI lab and several thoughtful discussions with various faculty. Farid delivered a a keynote address on his research and the future of AI, at the Grand Ballroom in the Hanover Inn on Friday February 27th. A recording of this lecture (and the brief Q&A of audience questions, moderated by Dartmouth Computer Science Professor Soroush Vosoughi, that followed), can be found here.