Newsweek AI Impact Awards - Listing of Categories

AI Arts & Media 

Best Outcomes, Audio Media & Arts

• AI has uses across sound editing and mixing, creating new sounds, dubbing, and assisting in translations. 

Best Outcomes, Digital Media & Arts 

• AI is being used across industries to improve results across promotion, marketing, entertainment, journalism, from data results to automating writing by providing script and personalized recommendations.

Best Outcomes, Visual Media & Arts 

• AI goes beyond simply generating images, creating interactive art and exploring issues of bias and can serve as a jumping off point for bigger creations.

Best Outcomes, Written Media & Arts 

• AI can do more than help in drafting.  It can help to give narration to an established idea, adjust writing styles and tones, and help in overcoming writers block with brainstorm generation, as well as simply correcting errors in spelling and grammar.  

Best Outcomes, Live Performance Arts 

• More and more, AI is being used to create immersive theater experiences.  AI can analize poses and blocking.  AI can also be used to analyze audience reactions from a concertgoer, adjust music, lighting and display to adjust the mood of the event, and can take the theatergoer to new places with projections and sound. 

Best Outcomes in Motion Picture Arts 

• AI can help develop content, predict box office numbers, crunch data from social, dub foreign films, create impactful visuals and beyond.

AI Brand & Retail 

Best Outcomes, Customer Experience 

• AI can assist in the overall customer experience by influencing outcomes in basket size, reducing return rates, and overall retention and margins. 

Best Outcomes, eCommerce Transaction 

• AI can enhance the shopper experience by tailoring product, pricing, support and beyond.  

Best Outcomes, Marketing and Creative 

• AI can offer personalized marketing, A/B tests, web-site navigation, cross-selling/up-selling and enhanced product descriptions. 

Best Outcomes, Product Development and Innovation 

• AI functionality assists in interpreting and summarizing end user feedback to extend the lifecycle of products and/or develop entirely new products. 

Best Outcomes, Supply Chain Optimization 

• AI has uses in both in-store and e-commerce, prediction and forecasting support, shipping and tracking, as well as enhancing efficiency. 

AI Cities 

Best Outcomes, City Efficiency 

• AI can be used to examine transportation, energy usage and pollution to minimize overall waste and aid city planners to strive for optimum efficiency. 

Best Outcomes, Urban Planning 

• AI can monitor data in traffic areas to improve infostructure, increase safety and assist in making informed decisions within city planning, creating a more sustainable environment. 

Best outcomes in Public Transportation 

• AI can assist in Innovative transportation solutions, contributing to a low carbon future. 

Best outcomes in Energy Efficiency 

• AI is used in optimizing building efficiency, decarbonizing real estate and forecasting various patterns within the energy grid. 

AI Customer Service 

Best Outcomes, Analyzing Customer Data 

• AI is transforming business through data analytics, identifying customer patterns through large datasets, predicting behaviors and even laying out customer-centric marketing campaigns, all based on data. 

Best Outcomes, Customer Satisfaction 

• AI can improve customer satisfaction by helping customers in real time, working to answer questions and solve problems as they arise. 

Best Outcomes, Predicting Problems 

• AI can use large pools of data across the customer journey, from support tickets to purchase history to social activity to prevent issues from occurring before they arise. 

Best Outcomes, Personalizing Support 

• AI is being used to study customers' online data to categorize them into groups to help anticipate individual customer needs, provide personalized recommendations/ solutions and give direct support. 

AI Education 

Best Outcomes, Commercial Learning 

• AI can tailor training content, track and path employee needs, create virtual ‘coaches’ as well as analyze performance and on the job skill metrics 

Best Outcomes, General Learning 

• Some things AI can provide here are automated training, virtual tutors, learning and content recommendations. 

Best Outcomes, K-12 Education 

• AI can be used to tailor learning to individual needs and assess a student’s strengths and weaknesses, using this data to create the best learning programs. 

Best Outcomes, Higher Education 

• Uses for AI in higher education can range from student teaching, to support systems, admin and admissions to curriculum planning. 

AI Finance 

Best Outcomes. Financial Services  

• AI is transforming investment, corporate banking, insurance and investments. This includes process automation, efficiencies, enhanced revenue opportunities, compliance, and data privacy. 

Best Outcomes, Mitigating Fraud   

• AI can aid in detecting and preventing fraud by analyzing transaction patterns and identifying anomalies and potential cyber-attacks. 

Best Outcomes, Accounting  

• This AI category would include invoice processing, document review, forecasting, auditing, tax compliance, overall compliance checks, data analysis and fraud detection. 

Best Outcomes, Consumer Banking 

• Consumer banking can utilize AI in many ways, including risk assessment opportunities, customer authentication, customer service and specifically making banking customer-centric. 

Best Outcomes, Capital Markets 

• This AI capital markets category covers risk assessment opportunities, navigating regulatory changes, product development and other related uses. 

AI Healthcare 

Bests Outcomes, Care Coordination 

• AI tools can be used to bolster hospitals' command centers—evaluating wait times and helping with scheduling. They can also respond to patient inquiries and help schedule appointments. 

Best Outcomes, Health Equity 

• AI can analyze large swaths of data and identify disparities in healthcare. 

Best Outcomes, Patient Care 

• AI creations that correlate to patient health, as all roads lead to the patient.

Best Outcomes, Diagnostics 

• AI tools can be used to guide diagnosis, especially in image-heavy specialties like radiology.

Best Outcomes, Physician Satisfaction 

• AI in healthcare can automate administrative tasks, taking time-consuming duties off doctors' plates.

AI Humanities & Social Sciences

Best Outcomes, Economics 

• AI is used to inform decision making through data analysis and better predictions, allowing deeper insights to market behaviors.

Best Outcomes, Fiction or Non-Fiction Literature 

• AI can aid in research assistance, storyboard outlines, character development, beyond simple spelling and grammar checks. 

Best Outcomes, History or Art History 

• AI has helped historians make sense of ancient text & languages, made predictions in historical blank spots, and aided in climate considerations for preservation of paintings and artifacts. 

Best Outcomes, Language, Linguistics or Communications 

• AI advancements can be used in voice to text/text to voice, uncovering patterns, language learning and assistance in translation barriers. 

Best Outcomes, Philosophy or Psychology 

• AI can be used to simulate scenarios and analyze big data to explore questions and perspectives on human behavior.   

Best Outcomes, Sociology or Political Science 

• AI aids in identifying patterns in social behavior, emotional manipulations and other ethical considerations.

AI Marketing

Best outcomes, Consumer Targeting and Personalization

• Leveraging patterns in market/customer data, identifying quality leads and segmenting to boost conversions can all precisely segment audiences through AI.  

Best outcomes, Content Creation

• Automating copy writing, design and creative quality can create dynamic content with various user interactions.  

Best outcomes, Enhanced Search 

• Optimizing search engine marketing and optimization through AI can include results forecasting, improved conversions and overall enhancements in customer experience. 

Best outcomes, Programmatic Marketing

• AI trends in programmatic can include personalized ad experiences and predictive analytics to deliver highly personalized marketing at scale. 

Best outcomes, Video Marketing Strategy

• Automating video creation and editing are some primary uses for the video marketer.  

AI Mobility 

Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation Manufacturing 

• AI is being used by parts suppliers and vehicle manufacturers to improve recall rates, end product and refining practices. Measured via lowered recall rates, manufacturing ratings, and initial quality surveys.

Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation Product Design 

• Designers are using AI to derive ideas, design expediently, and test vehicles in augmented and virtual reality environments. Measured outcomes by acknowledging how much quicker product comes to market and detailed applications that explain how AI is used in studios.

Best Outcomes, Automotive/Transportation UX Systems 

• AI is being used in the background and foreground to make UX systems better and offer more efficient and accurate computing. AI can also provide detailed explanations of expedited and improved processes. 

AI Science & Engineering 

Best Outcomes, Computer Science 

• AI is being used to provide high levels of accuracy in data visualizations, processing and mining.  This might also lean into robotics, image recognition and program writing.

Best Outcomes, Engineering 

• Ai impacts engineering in many ways, from analytics, to risk assessment to streamlining and comparing regulations.

Best Outcomes, Materials Science and Chemistry 

• Chemists have been using AI for some time to identify patterns to perform quick and precise analysis, and also in predicting new compounds with desired, required properties.

Best Outcomes, Physical Science 

• AI can be used algorithmically to predict and simulate physical phenomena.  AI can perform tasks that are more difficult to model with more traditional methods.

AI Sports 

Best Outcomes, Sports Broadcasting/Streaming 

• The use of AI can capture performance highlights, distribute those highlights across multiple platforms and improve the overall viewing experience for the sports fan.

Best Outcomes, Sports Performance 

• Not only can AI impact overall performance, but it can also be used to predict potential injuries, create training programs and monitor health.

Best Outcomes, Sports Production 

• AI can automate and improve commentary and broadcasting, assisting in tracking, replays, game data and so on.

AI Sustainability 

Best Outcomes, Agriculture & Land Use 

• AI is being broadly applied across agricultural and land uses, such as precise application of fertilizers, integrating riparian buffers where crops abut waterways, developing smarter feedlots for livestock, and tracking the origin of tropical products. 

Best Outcome in Climate Adaptation & Resilience 

• AI tools are consistently improving the monitoring and response to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change, across fire, flooding and heatwaves.   

Best Outcome in Clean Energy 

• AI tools are assisting with the development of better clean tech, integrating the intermittent power from RE into the grid and a myriad other clean energy developments. 

Best Outcome in Energy Infrastructure 

• AI is assisting with the best siting and permitting of solar and wind power, and overall better development of clean technology. 

Best Outcome in Nature Conservation 

• AI tools are improving satellite monitoring of sensitive and remote ecosystems, helping biologists and park managers track wildlife via sight and sound, and predicting ecosystem change and threats.

AI Workplace 

Best Outcomes, Digital Workspaces 

• AI assists across tracking user time in apps, messages sent, project completion times and collaboration wins. 

Best Outcomes in Employee Engagement 

• AI can be used to gauge employee engagement and interaction in surveys, retention, office attendance and beyond. 

Best Outcomes, HR 

• Payroll, compliance, workforce planning & management and other HR functions have consistently been enhanced with the use of AI. 

Best Outcomes, Hybrid Work 

• AI can be utilized in meeting reduction and/or efficiency, process improvements, enablement of a flexible working model and other hybrid working processes.   

Best Outcomes, Learning and Development 

• Using AI can show improvement in participation, internal mobilities, onboarding of new positions and tasks, and enhance overall employee development. 

Best Outcomes, Leadership and Succession Planning 

• Leaderships planning can be enhanced by AI initiavies across leadership/manager satisfaction scoring, executive retention and representation in homegrown executives. 

Best Outcomes, Recruiting 

• New hire retention, movement through the recruiting funnel and hiring in more geographies all have tangible and proven AI components.

Best of - Most Innovative AI Technology or Service 

Extraordinary Impact in AI innovation 

• Recognizing an AI methodology, technology or architecture with potential to profoundly impact multiple real world use cases

Extraordinary Impact in Commercial Tool or Service 

• Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has enabled significant gains in productivity, customer experience, or new revenue generation across one or more industries. 

Extraordinary Impact in General Purpose AI Tool or Service 

• Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that has demonstrated significant commercial or cultural impact

Extraordinary Impact in AI Human Interactivity or Collaboration 

• Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing interactive human-to-human or human-to-machine communication and collaboration

Extraordinary Impact in AI Transparency or Responsibility 

• Recognizing a commercially available AI tool or service that that has demonstrated significant value in enhancing explainability or responsibility of AI systems