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Making friends with your past and future selves

It’s what psychologists call self-continuity, and can improve your health and well-being
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Mind and Machine - Dr. Nathan Whitmore at the MIT Media Lab

Dr. Nathan Whitmore is working on a revolutionary project to boost sleep quality, performance, and memory.
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AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?

WIRED’s advice columnist cracks open the publication’s archive to consider past promises about AI agents.
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A 14-Year-Old Boy Killed Himself to Get Closer to a Chatbot. He Thought They Were In Love.

Technologists say chatbots are a remedy for the loneliness epidemic, but looking to an algorithm for companionship can be dangerous.
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Intelligence Augmentation w/ Prof. Pattie Maes

“We should think more about how we want to use this technology to help people."
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The Pioneer: Prioritizing People, Augmenting Human Intelligence

Prof. Maes's research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence.
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Will we love A.I too much?

Robert Mahari talks to host Krys Boyd about the potential risks of human-AI companionship.
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Lawfare Daily: Robert Mahari on Addictive Intelligence, Digital Attachment Disorders, and Other AI-related Concerns

How could the increased use of AI lead humans to form addictive relationships with AI?
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Here’s what happens when humans and AI dance together

At MIT, the Open Dance Lab is exploring how to preserve an ancient dance form with the help of artificial intelligence.
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Will autonomous weapons make humans passive participants in war?

Experts warn AI-powered military systems may eventually push battlefield decision-making beyond the limits of human cognition
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Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality

A growing body of research shows how AI can subtly mislead users—and even implant false memories.
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How to Take the Perfect Nap

Stigma around napping in American workplaces is slowly changing.
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Here’s how people are actually using AI

Something peculiar and slightly unexpected has happened: people have started forming relationships with AI systems.
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Innovative mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

Today Vega is the co-founder and CEO of Augmental.
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Panel discussion with Adam Haar and Carsten Höller, moderated by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos

Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz and artist Carsten Höller discuss their Dream Hotel collaboration.
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Meet The Chinese Artist Who Bridges Art, Technology And Human Dreams

Calling herself both artist and engineer, Xin Liu incorporates elements of space exploration, biotech, and data science into her projects.
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Mr. Maeda's Cozy AI Kitchen - Evolution of Agents with Pattie Maes

“We have to think a lot more carefully about how we design the interaction between people and AI.”
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MIT Neuroscience Reveals the Mystery Behind Aesthetic Chills. Here’s the Real Reason You Get Goosebumps

How the intensity of emotional experiences affects your focus.
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Cathy Fang selected as an Apple Scholar

The Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship program has supported more than 100 emerging leaders in computer science and engineering.
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Early methods for studying affective use and emotional wellbeing in ChatGPT: An OpenAI and MIT Media Lab Research collaboration

Editor’s Note: This blog was written jointly with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab. It also appears here. 
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Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
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To the Moon to Stay: MIT Lunar Mission Launch 2025

With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
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MeMic only has ears for you

MeMic is a wearable recording device developed in the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group.
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The Interview: Carsten Höller + Adam Haar

Alum Adam Haar and artist Carsten Höller talk about the Dream Hotel—a collaboration that began with Höller’s 2021 MIT CAST residency.
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From The Wall Street Journal: AI Has Shown Me My Future. Here’s What I’ve Learned.

The tool is the brainchild of a team that includes MIT Media Lab postdoctorate Pat Pataranutaporn, who studies AI systems that help people f
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Developing wearables and environmental sensor systems for studying ecosystems

For ACM Crossroads, Cathy Fang talks to fellow Media Lab student Patrick Chwalek about his work developing sensor systems.
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18-year-old Nigerian-American wins awards in finance, AI inventions

Bell was a high school intern with the Fluid Interfaces group, where he helped to develop assistive cognitive tools.
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TIME's Best Inventions of 2024: Media Lab honorees

The companies were selected in the following categories: Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing + Materials, Agriculture, and Medical Care.
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MemPal selected for 2024 Prototypes for Humanity exhibition

MemPal was selected in the Health category.
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Media Lab researchers take second place in MIT AI Pitch Competition

The theme for this year's competition was Generative Voice AI Solutions.
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Fluid Interfaces group research featured as cover story of Computers special issue

The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
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The World at MIT: Pattie Maes

Professor Pattie Maes chose a career in computer science for practical reasons, but was drawn to the amazing research being done at MIT.
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Whither BCIs?

Researcher Nataliya Kosmyna and other experts discuss the potential of and safeguards needed for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).
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AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices

Future You, developed by Dr. ​​Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.
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How new science fiction could help us improve AI

In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.
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2024 MIT Prize for Open Data: Media Lab honorees

Media Lab students and alums are among the winners and honorees for the 2024 MIT Prize for Open Data.
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Member Collaboration Story—At World Mental Health Day, Samsung + MIT Media Lab Highlight Sleep’s Impact on Mental Health

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a…
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AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
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AI Assistive Technology Offers Potential to Support Older Adults with Independent Living

Developed by MIT Media Lab, MemPal was co-designed with older adults, enabling them to shape a future where they can age comfortably at home
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‘Brain-computer interface’ allows user to move objects with mind

Professor Pattie Maes and research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna demonstrate a wearable brain-computer interface called AttentivU.
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Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize 2024: Media Lab honorable mentions

Media Labbers Dünya Baradari, Alvin Harvey, and Cassandra Lee each received honorable mentions.
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
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SXSW 2025 PanelPicker Proposals

Explore the Media Lab community’s PanelPicker proposals!
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We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’

The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.
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Six Media Lab students receive MIT Presidential Fellowship awards

Congratulations to the six fellowship recipients!
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Manuel Cherep selected for 2024 "la Caixa" Fellowship

Manuel Cherep has been selected for the prestigious 2024-2026 "la Caixa" Fellowship competitively awarded to students from Spain
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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
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Space Headband

On Saturday, June 8, 2024, the "Galactic 07" flight took place in New Mexico. Virgin Galactic’s spaceship was converted into a suborbital s…
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Building AI agents with Semantic Kernel

In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.
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Cathy Fang selected for 2024 Angela Leong Fellowship

This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
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Memoro and App Inventor Foundation named among Fast Company's World Changing Ideas 2024

They were honored in the Students and Education categories respectively.
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Three Media Lab papers selected for honorable mentions at CHI 2024

Authors include researchers from the Fluid Interfaces, Future Sketches, and Tangible Media research groups.
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Caitlin Morris among 2024 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows

Caitlin is an artist, researcher, and educator creating and researching around themes of perception and the human-environment relationship.
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Research at Scale 2024

A one-month residency in Shenzhen to scale research with mass manufacturing for affordability or unprecedented magnitudes
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Tangible Media paper most cited of ACM SIGCHI

The paper authored by Professor Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer is from CHI '97.
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2024: A Leap Forward in Creative Innovation

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
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Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
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Xin Liu wins inaugural K11 Artist Prize

Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
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"AI Comes Out of the Closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.