We empower change-makers, visionary leaders, and catalytic pioneers in AI that affects cross-sector collaboration.

Then we build it.

In partnership with the MIT Media Lab, sAIpien builds strategic, cross-industry cohorts of today’s most important leaders, along with builders, researchers, and ethicists, to co-create technology that makes us more intelligent, more empathetic, more human.

With sAIpien, organizations gain the literacy, tools, partnerships, and AI solutions to keep pace with technological change and transform moonshot ideas into real-world solutions that benefit both business and society.

What we do

Set new Standards for Human-Computer-Interactions

We’ve set a new benchmark for ethical AI, HCI2™, creating the principles that guide our members in developing solutions that are inclusive, responsible, and transparent. 

Establish Cooperative Advantages

We unite non-competitive, cross-industry cohorts into an ecosystem for shared learning, auditable data, and symbiotic insights that lead to business and culture transformation.

Create AI-Literate Leaders

We empower and inspire people and organizations to use AI confidently and responsibly, cultivating literacy and agency at every level, while turning AI disruption into a competitive advantage.

Build Interoperable AI Products

We build the next generation of AI products and platforms, turning moonshot ideas into scalable solutions that deliver measurable societal, economic, and competitive impact.

At the MIT Media Lab 

We believe in the power of collaborative innovation to unlock the transformative potential of AI.  sAIpien is an exclusive program designed to translate our moonshot AI research into societal, economic, and environmental impact.

We believe in the power of collaborative innovation to unlock the transformative potential of AI.  sAIpien is an exclusive program designed to translate our moonshot AI research into societal, economic, and environmental impact. Focusing on the future of Human-AI systems, we work with selected organizations and governments around the world, empowering them to be leaders in the usage, advancement, and adoption of AI to introduce fundamentally groundbreaking innovations and contribute to the formation of an inclusive new economy for the world, based on Data as an Asset and Trust as a Currency. 

Our Manifesto

We see only one perspective.
Our own.
This is the lens we bring to bear on the world.
We know what it’s like to be ourselves, but do we know what its 
like
to see the world through the eyes of someone else?
We want to live in a world where AI expands our worldview.
It shows us what else the world might look like, how else we might be able to think.
We want to live in a world where AI is a lens to see our own world better.
With more clarity, more intelligence, more transparency, more empathy.
Because when we find new ways to think, we find new ways to work together
and collaborate more effectively.

To scale our collective intellect.

To exalt our shared humanity.

Lets make our world bigger.

We believe that technology
is an ecology, and that like
any flourishing system
requires cooperation across
different elements for
breakthroughs that matter.

We believe that data is the new asset class, trust is the new currency,
and AI is the new economy.

Current Focus Areas

This program is tailored for large and complex enterprises, cities, and government agencies  that are seeking to become future industry leaders.

Our Story

It’s 1985 and the FCC opens the radio lanes for unlicensed use. Mass-market wireless is suddenly possible. 

It’s 1997 and the IEEE issues its first 2.4 GHz standard: IEEE 802.11™.

The foundation for Wi-Fi has been built.

It’s 1999 and the Wi-Fi alliance forms. Six founding companies are present: 3Com, Aironet, Intersil, Lucent Technologies, Nokia, and Symbol Technologies.
They’ve united to guarantee the interoperability of different products from different vendors.

It’s 2005 and the European Commission harmonizes 5 GHz use.
Now, Wi-Fi works cleanly and consistently across the EU.

It could have been otherwise.

No one was begging governments, companies, regulators, and councils to work together. No one forced the FCC to open their radio lanes. No one made the Wi-Fi alliance work together rather than try and protect their own turf.

This was uncharted territory.

It might have been easier to do nothing or go at it alone out of
fear of getting it wrong.

But what about the price of getting it right?

Our entire digital communication infrastructure was built atop people setting aside their doubts, and working together, side-by-side, step-by-step, year-by-year.

We have a new challenge, now.

How to build AI that serves humanity, that establishes the types of networks the likes of which made wireless communication possible.

What will be our gift to the world?

We believe is AI is for everyone. That intelligence scales, and that AI is a multiplier, a network effector, an exponent of better ideas, with faster build times, and more humane outcomes.

But right now what we see are siloes.

Our goal at sAIpien is to break those siloes down. To recapture the cooperative spirit of the original communication spectrum for a new technological paradigm.

We want to work together, to learn together, to put our heads together and create something better than the sum of its parts.

We begin and end with humans because that’s what we are: flawed, complicated, wonderful, irreplaceable, and incomprehensible, but capable of great things when we come together.

Our goal is to create cohorts and technology that makes us more intelligent, more empathetic, more human.

A new spectrum for a new era.

About Us

How we work, who we work with and how we are different.

sAIpien is a unique immersion into the world of AI, bridging fundamental research, Human Dynamics, ethical and legal aspects of AI, and design as part of a holistic program encompassing bold ideas to transform how business has thought about AI to date.

• Advance AI Literacy:
  Cultivate a deep understanding of AI concepts and ethical considerations.
• Drive Impactful Change:
  Empower people to embrace AI and navigate its challenges.
• Shape the Future of AI:
  Contribute to a global dialogue on the responsible development and deployment of AI.

Our Projects

Founding Faculty Members

sAIpien Team:

Founding Faculty

Hossein Rahnama, Founding Member
Sandy Pentland, Founding Member
Dava Newman, Founding Member
Kent Larson, Founding Member
Matti Gruener, Founding Graduate Student

Fellows and Affiliates

Marjan Alirezaie, Founding Affiliated Professor 
Daniel Platnick, Founding Affiliated Research Scientist 
Tracey Forrest, Fellow
David Fergusson, Fellow
Carlos Moreira, Fellow
Jeff Savianno, Fellow

Collaborators and Friends

Erin Leonard, Innovation Affiliate
Mae-Lynn Slater, Innovation Affiliate
Raven Lucas, Innovation Affiliate
Nadia Otake, Innovation Affiliate

How to Apply

sAIpien is designed for some of the largest companies in the world through engagement with C-Suites and Boards of Directors who want to shape the future of their organizations and the market through advanced research.

Contact us to learn more:

e. rahnama@mit.edu
w. media.mit.edu