Membership in AAAI helps support ongoing efforts to encourage and facilitate research, education, and development in the artificial intelligence field, including our most recent open access initiative.
AAAI promotes cooperation and communication among members of the worldwide AI community and honors outstanding members of the AI field each year through its Fellows and Awards programs. We hope that you will consider AAAI as your professional society.
All AAAI members have access to the following benefits:
- An online subscription to AI Magazine
- Access to the AI Magazine App
- Access to the AAAI online directory
- Access to the AAAI social network of members and the opportunity to create your own personalized set of contacts and subgroups
- Access to the members-only section of the AAAI Library, including the archive of AI Magazine
- Discounts on all AAAI conferences, symposia, and workshops
- Discounts on AAAI publications
- Discounts on AAAI’s affiliate and cooperating conferences and sponsored journals
- Advance notifications of upcoming AAAI events and deadlines
- Eligibility for AAAI scholarships, honors, and awards
- Support of AAAI Educational Initiatives, including programs for research and career mentoring through EAAI and AAAI Doctoral and Undergraduate Consortia
- Support of AAAI Initiatives on Diversity and Inclusion
- Support of AAAI’s commitment to open access publications
- Support of AI Research and Development Worldwide
AAAI Regular and Life-Time members also have these additional benefits:
- Eligibility for AAAI Fellow and Other Honors
- Eligibility for Senior Member Grade Membership (after 5 years of consecutive membership)
- Eligibility to vote in AAAI Executive Council Elections
- Eligibility to establish a AAAI Student, Institutional, or Geographical Chapter
- Access to professional networking and collaboration
AI professionals and students enjoy special discounts to AAAI conference registration. Membership also supports AI Magazine and AAAI publications.
Membership and Subscription Rates
Thank you for your interest in AAAI Membership. AAAI is open to anyone with an interest in artificial intelligence research and development.
Regular Individual
- One-Year Membership Rate: $135.00
- Three-Year Membership Rate: $405.00
- Five-Year Membership Rate: $675.00
- Life-Time Membership Rate: $2025.00
Full-Time Student
- One-Year Membership Rate: $50.00
To be eligible, student applicants must send legible proof of full-time student status in a degree-bearing program, such as a letter from their faculty advisor or a copy of their registration.
Retiree
- One-Year Membership Rate: $50.00
Retiree applicants must send legible proof of age. Retirees must be 65 or older and retired from full-time employment.
Institution/Library
- One-Year Membership/Subscription Rate: $275.00
- Three-Year Membership/Subscription Rate: $825.00
- Five-Year Membership/Subscription Rate: $1375.00
Effective January 1, 2022, AAAI no longer produces AI Magazine as a printed magazine. As a benefit, Institution/Library subscribers who have provided a working email address will receive PDF files of AI Magazine issues on a quarterly basis. No agency discounts are given. Please note that AI Magazine is available in open access via Wiley Publications.
AAAI Developing Countries Membership
As part of AAAI’s international outreach initiative, AAAI is pleased to offer a special rate for members in selected developing countries. All first-time and renewing members in the countries listed are eligible for the following deeply discounted membership rates:
- Regular $20.00 (US)
- Student $18.00 (US)
Developing Country members are entitled to all benefits afforded to full-paying members. See our Developing Country List.
Become a Member
Join AAAI
- Visit the AAAI membership website to create a new user account.
- Select your member type from the dropdown menu.
- Complete the membership application form.
- Submit your payment.
Renew Your AAAI Membership
- Visit the AAAI membership website to enter your username and password at Existing Users.
- Complete the membership application form.
- Or, click the invoice in the renewal reminder email message you received to submit your payment.
New memberships are accepted at any time and begin as soon as payment is received, and the membership has been processed. Renewal dates fall on the date the membership is activated and are not necessarily based on the calendar year. Cancellations are accepted at any time, but memberships are nonrefundable. All rates are subject to change without notice.
Effective January 1, 2022, AAAI no longer produces AI Magazine as a printed magazine. As a benefit, AAAI members who have provided a working email address will receive access to a digital and interactive version of AI Magazine and the AI Magazine App on a quarterly basis. Institution/Library subscriptions to AI Magazine issues are available to librarians at rates quoted above. No agency discounts are given. Please note that AI Magazine is available in open access via Wiley Publications.