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Pat Pataranutaporn

Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Asahi Broadcasting Corporation CD Prof of Media Arts and Sciences
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MIT Researchers Bring Big Ideas to Google Cambridge

MIT Media Lab + MIT CSAIL researchers present at Google Cambridge
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Rather than Simply Making Machines Smarter, Media Lab Researchers Seek to Empower People

‘Advancing Humans with AI’ makes bettering lives the focus
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Heavy reliance on AI for advice may hinder emotional development

Pat Pataranutaporn shares with CBS News his findings on human-AI interaction.
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Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews

In The Guardian, Pat Pataranutaporn warns that missing AI disclaimers in health content can lead users to trust information too easily.
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Video evidence and eye witness accounts: Why people see different things

Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain
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Stop Letting AI Run Your Social Life

How AI Became a Third Party in Our Relationships, According to the MIT Media Lab’s Cyborg Psychology Group.
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"Cyber Subin" Wins AI Creative Future Grand Prix Award

A collaborative project bridging traditional Thai dance and artificial intelligence has been awarded the AI Creative Future Grand Prix…
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The Chatbot-Delusion Crisis

Researchers are scrambling to figure out why generative AI appears to lead some people to a state of “psychosis.”
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A new industry of AI companions is emerging

It may have profound implications for society and what it means to be human
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They Fell in Love With A.I. Chatbots — and Found Something Real

MIT researchers find chatbot relationships can reduce loneliness, while one in five Americans report intimate A.I. encounters despite risks.
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What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality

OpenAI’s push for broader appeal raised safety concerns. With new safeguards in place, can the company keep growing at the same pace?
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MIT Media Lab Explores New Frontiers with KBTG in Bangkok

MIT Media Lab deepens KBTG partnership in Bangkok, advancing AI, social algorithms, and community innovation across Thailand.
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Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal?

What can AI “griefbots” do for those in mourning?
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The Atlantic Festival 2025 | The Future of AI and Humanity

At The Atlantic Festival this year, MIT Media Lab professor and researcher Pat Pataranutaporn and Atlantic senior editor Hanna Ro…
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MIT Tech Review: It’s surprisingly easy to stumble into a relationship with an AI chatbot

By Rhiannon WilliamsIt’s a tale as old as time. Looking for help with her art project, she strikes up a conversation with her assistan…
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AI doesn’t just lie — it can make you believe it

New studies show AI chatbots and altered media can distort memory
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Danielle Wood and Pat Pataranutaporn in Thailand at KBTG

Danielle Wood and Pat Pataranutaporn in Thailand at KBTG Techtopia: At World's Beginning.
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‘The Dead Have Never Been This Talkative’: The Rise of AI Resurrection

MIT Media Lab research warns AI grief tech may comfort but risks creating false memories.
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School of Architecture and Planning welcomes new faculty for 2025

Four new professors join the Department of Architecture and MIT Media Lab.
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AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors

Research from Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley finds that generative AI models have largely stopped providing disclaimers about medical advice
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AHA Symposium 2025
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MIT Media Lab Welcomes New Faculty Advancing Human-Centered AI and Digital Justice

Dr. Karrie Karahalios and Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn join the faculty, bringing bold interdisciplinary research in algorithmic accountability an
July 9, 2025
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MIT Media Lab Appoints Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn as Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Pioneering researcher joins the MIT faculty to explore the future of human flourishing with technology.
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Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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TeleAbsence: A Vision of Past and Afterlife Telepresence

A positioning paper in "PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality" that presents the design principles behind TeleAbsence
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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2025!

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next!
May 16, 2025
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Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection

Pattie Maes + Pat Pataranutaporn explore how AI companions shape us—and how to design them to support human wellbeing.
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Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental health

Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.
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My MIT Media Lab Experience and Advice for Prospective Students

My name is Pat, and I recently completed my PhD at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group under the mentorship of Professor Pattie Maes…
May 12, 2025
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OpenAI Study Finds Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness

Higher use of chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and less time spent socializing with other people
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How chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis

New research from the Media Lab and OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization.
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Arianna Huffington speaks at inaugural AHA Symposium

Arianna Huffington spoke at the inaugural AHA Symposium, during the opening panel: "What does it mean to flourish in the age of AI?"
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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.
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Trusting ChatGPT helps to improve it

In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
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Horse sense about AI

In Psychology Today, author William Poundstone considers research from the Fluid Interfaces group in light of the Clever Hans effect.
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Placebo effect shapes how we see AI

Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
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The assumptions you bring into conversation with an AI bot influence what it says

In Scientific American, PhD student Pat Pataranutaporn talks about how a user's impressions of AI chatbots may influence their interactions.
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Pat Pataranutaporn on exploring the intersection of humans and artificial intelligence

Pat Pataranutaporn discusses the inspiration behind his research at the intersection of biological systems and digital technology.
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TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023: SeedLabs MicroPET

The SeedLabs MicroPET, which began as a Media Lab collaboration, was selected to TIME's 200 Best Inventions of 2023.
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Wearable Reasoner

Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality through a Wearable AI Assistant
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DayDreamNight

Produced in collaboration between CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller and MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group.
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Is AI in the eye of the beholder?

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
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A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.
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Fast Company's 2023 World-Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

A number of Media Lab and MIT projects and spinoffs were recognized.
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A chatbot that asks questions could help you spot when it makes no sense

Researchers from Fluid Interfaces presented this research at the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
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ACM ByteCast features Pat Pataranutaporn

Welcome to the ACM ByteCast podcast, a series from the Association for Computing Machinery! The podcast features conversations with researc…
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2023 Brings Dreams to Life

Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association