The Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program at the MIT Media Lab explores research on AI and human psychology. We explore how…
AI Wrapped 2025AI Wrapped offers a personalized journey through your year in AI conversations, revealing how you've used AI tools, what you…
The emergence of AI companion applications has created novel forms of intimate human-AI relationships, yet empirical research on these comm…
People use AI chatbots like ChatGPT in many ways—asking questions, sparking creativity, solving problems, and even for personal interaction…
In an era where loneliness has been declared an epidemic by the U.S. Surgeon General, older adults face particular vulnerability to social …
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies presents new opportunities to support daily living for older adults. This proje…
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
AbstractAs conversational agents powered by large language models become more human-like, users are starting to view them as companions rat…