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Moonshot: Atlas of Human-AI Interaction

Project OverviewThe Atlas of Human-AI Interaction is an innovative framework that maps the complex landscape of empirical findings in human…
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AHA Micro Grant

The AHA Micro Grant at the MIT Media Lab provides $5,000 to $10,000 in funding to support innovative projects that explore AI and Human Flo…
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Moonshot: Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AI

As AI systems become increasingly integrated into daily life, their capacity to both enhance and undermine human flourishing demands rigoro…
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Moonshot: Global Observatory for Human Impact of AI

The Global Observatory monitors worldwide impact of AI adoption across cultures, tracking both positive and negative outcomes such as over-…
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AHA Seminar Series

Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
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Be Part of Advancing Humans with AI

Join AHA and become part of a community advancing human flourishing with AI. Through your support, we hope to advance awareness and real-wo…
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Kernel Alignment using Manifold Approximation

M. T. Islam, D. Liu and D. Sarkar, “Kernel Alignment using Manifold Approximation” International Conference on Learning Representations (2025)
Thesis Research

With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life

Advincula, Larson 2021. With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life.
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Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
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Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy

Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Kent Larson, Esteban Moro. 2022. Generating synthetic mobility data for a realistic population with RNNs to improve utility and privacy. In Proceedings of The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC ’22). 955-959. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477314.3507230
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Summer 2025 recommended reading from MIT

Chapter by Danielle R. Wood in summer 2025 reading from MIT
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AI risks 'broken' career ladder for college graduates, some experts say

Advances of AI chatbots like ChatGPT heighten concern, experts say.
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The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
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Deep Image of the City: A generative approach to urban-design visualization

Noyman, Ariel, and Kent Larson. "A deep image of the city: Generative urban-design visualization." Proceedings of the 11th annual symposium on simulation for architecture and urban design. 2020.
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Is Using ChatGPT to Write Your Essay Bad for Your Brain? New MIT Study Explained

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
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City Science Network Impact Measurement and Governance Methodology

Researchers from the Tiresia research team, at Politecnico di Milano have been working with members of the City Science team to outline and…
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Informando lo informal: estrategias para generar información en asentamientos precarios

Acevedo, P. et al., Informando lo informal: estrategias para generar información en asentamientos precarios, IADB: Inter-American Development Bank. United States of America. Retrieved from https://coilink.org/20.500.12592/4nkcw6 on 26 Jun 2025. COI: 20.500.12592/4nkcw6.
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Gastronomy and beyond: A collaborative initiative for rethinking food's role in society, sustainability, and territory

Balderas-Cejudo, A., Iruretagoyena, M., Alonso, L., Church, M., Izquierdo, L., Hill, I., & Larson, K. (2025). Gastronomy and Beyond: A collaborative Initiative for Rethinking Food’s Role in Society, Sustainability, and Territory. International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, 101118.
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MAS Faculty Receive Aging Brain Initiative Seed Grants for Alzheimer’s Research

Pattie Maes and Ed Boyden receive Aging Brain Initiative seed grants to advance innovative Alzheimer’s research.
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Receptive Skins: Towards a Somatosensitive Architecture

Kapelonis, Chrisoula. Receptive skins: towards a somatosensitive architecture. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018.
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Fourier Series Weight in Quantum Machine Learning

Parfait Atchade-Adelomou, et al. Fourier Series Weight in Quantum Machine Learning. Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 2024;4(1):108.
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MIT Media Lab 40th Anniversary

Join us as we celebrate the MIT Media Lab's 40th anniversary year in 2025!
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MIT NANDA: Algorithms to Unlock The Internet of AI Agents

NANDA (Networked Agents and Decentralized AI) is an ambitious MIT initiative developing the foundational infrastructure for a true "Interne…
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Media Lab researchers awarded grants from MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium

Media Lab researchers awarded MGAIC grants for exploring AI decision-making and human-AI musical collaboration.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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CNN: AI's Effects On The Brain

Study: Using AI Could Cost You Brainpower
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Five Media Lab Students named 2025 MIT Presidential Fellows

Congratulations to the five fellowship recipients!
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Your Brain on ChatGPT

Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and bus…
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Media Lab Brain Study on ChatGPT Sparks Global Media Coverage

From CNN to The New Yorker, international outlets spotlight Nataliya Kos’myna’s research on how AI tools affect cognitive function.
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MIT Media Lab in the News

Explore stories about the Media Lab from global news outlets.
Nov. 20, 2024
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Taxonomy of Informality: Methodology for Establishing Multi-Dimension Global Informal Indicators to Be Used on the Informality Crowd-Sourced

Wang, Xinran and Iruretagoyena, Maitane and Pastor, Luis Alonso and Larson, Kent, Taxonomy of Informality: Methodology for Establishing Multi-Dimension Global Informal Indicators to Be Used on the Informality Crowd-Sourced Database. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4149958 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4149958
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Generative AI for Design Workshop (DESAI25) Explores the Future of Creative Intelligence

DESAI25 brought together architects, engineers, computer scientists, artists, + designers to envision the future of design powered by AI
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Machine learning approach to design acoustic experiences

Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
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Alum Daniel Pillis wins Best Presentation at the Generative AI for Design Workshop 2025

This presentation explored the application of real time stable diffusion to improve the efficiency of virtual production workflows.
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Media Lab Community Awards and Recognitions 2025

View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules here.
Jan. 28, 2025
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A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts

Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
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MicroPET: Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
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Development and flight-testing of modular autonomous cultivation systems for biological plastics upcycling aboard the ISS

Liu, X., Pataranutaporn, P., Fram, B. et al. Development and flight-testing of modular autonomous cultivation systems for biological plastics upcycling aboard the ISS. npj Microgravity 11, 23 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-025-00463-2
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Dana Rubin wins Best Paper at 2025 ICLR AI4NA workshop

Dana Rubin’s Ribogen recognized with top honors at the ICLR AI for Nucleic Acids event in Singapore.
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RiboGen: RNA Sequence and Structure Co-Generation

RNA is a fundamental biomolecule that stands at the intersection of modern biology and the origins of life. It carries genetic instruc…
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Design of a Transradial Amputation Preserving Proprioceptive and Cutaenous Feedback

The transradial amputation has changed little through recent decades. The procedure is designed just to  provide padding for socket co…
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RiboGen: RNA Sequence and Structure Co-Generation with Equivariant MultiFlow

Rubin, D., Costa, A. dos S., Ponnapati, M., & Jacobson, J. (2025). RiboGen: RNA Sequence and Structure Co-Generation with Equivariant Multiflow. AI for Nucleic Acids Workshop at ICLR 2025. Best Paper Award.
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Media Arts & Sciences Alumni Mentorship Program

Launched in Fall 2023, the MAS Alumni Mentorship Program seeks to connect the past and the present. The virtual program runs annually in th…
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Combining technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning

Caitlin Morris designs digital learning platforms that make room for the “social magic” that influences curiosity and motivation.
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Congratulations to Marisol Diaz on being inducted into MIT's Quarter Century Club

Marisol Diaz is a member of the 2025 class of inductees
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Levels of Agentic Coordination : From Tools to Crowds

tl;dr: When millions of AI agents get smart simultaneously, they create "digital stampedes" by acting with the same "optimal" strategi…
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OctoStudio

OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
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Micro-credentials

The certified micro-credentials offered through the City Science Lab at the University of Guadalajara aims to enable individuals from infor…
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Creative Coding IDE Workshop

I have been creating experiments with IDEs! Specifically examining the relationship between the creative coder and their IDEs.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
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Why AI hardware needs to be open

An iPhone for AI would be a big mistake. Here’s what we need to build instead.
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Hugh Herr named to 2025 Forbes Accessibility 100 List

Professor Hugh Herr is among the top Forbes 100 innovators advancing accessibility.
Publication Research

Architecting a decision support system for continuing supervision of commercial in-space servicing

Jacqueline H. Smith, Moriba Jah, Danielle Wood, Architecting a decision support system for continuing supervision of commercial in-space servicing, Acta Astronautica, Volume 235, 2025, Pages 258-274, ISSN 0094-5765, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.05.036.
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AI can’t really be your ‘companion.’ We need new words for things like that.

The difference between a copilot and a ‘c0pilot.’
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City Science Lab Gipuzkoa - Opening Event June'25
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Living Knitwork Pavilion: Soft Responsive Architectural Space with Functional Textiles and Integrated System

Wicaksono, I., Rubio, A.P, Cichocka, J.M, Advincula, G., Chin, S., Yu, T., Mishra, M., and Paradiso, J., 2024. Living Knitwork Pavilion: Soft Responsive Architectural Space with Functional Textiles and Integrated System. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 2024.
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Shun-Ying Chen Wins T.S. Lin Fellowship Award

Under the mentorship of Prof. Sarkar, Shun-Ying Chen wins T.S Lin Fellowship Award
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Human Motion Signatures

Given motion capture samples of Charlie Chaplin's walk, is it possible to synthesize other motions—say, ascending or descending stairs—in h…
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What is a Multi-Agent System?

The Identity CrisisThe multi-agent systems field faces an identity crisis. As LLMs dominate AI discourse, researchers rebrand orchestrated …
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Large Population Models

Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
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The Invisible Economy: Why We Need an Agentic Census

Billions of AI agents will reshape society—and why we need to start measuring before it happens- Ayush Chopra, PhD Candidate MIT (media.mit…