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People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Kevin Esvelt spoke with 7News Boston about the “Mice Against Ticks” project and new approaches to preventing Lyme disease.
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
MIT Media Lab’s Karrie Karahalios named to Fast Company’s AI 20 for 2025 for pioneering work in contestable, human-centered AI systems.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks — and ticks usually becom…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Experts warn AI-powered military systems may eventually push battlefield decision-making beyond the limits of human cognition
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
The MIT senior and undergraduate researcher in the Conformable Decoders group will pursue graduate studies in the UK.
This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
Media Lab researcher Nikhil Singh and alums Aruna Sankaranarayanan and Matt Groh discuss ways that deepfakes may affect the 2024 elections.
Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland was among the experts participating in a panel discussion on how AI may affect the 2024 elections.
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
PhD student Shayne Longpre (Human Dynamics) discusses an open letter he co-authored with collaborators.
Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
The research on video doorbells—which includes a paper from the Human Dynamics group—hasn't found strong evidence that they reduce crime.
Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard and other experts discuss the opportunities and risks posed by rapid advances in AI.
In a new working paper, researchers consider the most effective ways to label online content as AI-generated, misleading, or both.
On NPR’s Fresh Air, alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (Civic Media) talks about the social implications of artificial intelligence.
In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
Groh, M., Badri, O., Daneshjou, R. et al. Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02728-3
Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…
How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
Dan Calacci, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, talks about one of his projects that centers around the gig economy.
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
Professor Tod Machover talks to the Boston Musical Intelligencer about updating VALIS for its first live performance in almost 30 years.
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Robert Mahari, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, and other experts talk to Inside Higher Ed about copyright & generative AI tools.
In an interview with Chamber Music America, Media Lab Professor Tod Machover talks about AI and music.
Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.
For BBC Science Focus, Media Lab research scientist Dr. Kate Darling considers the potential harms of mistreating robots.
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
Postdoc Ziv Epstein, PhD student Robert Mahari, & Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld consider the issues of generative AI and copyright law.
In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.
Dr. Kate Darling, a research scientist with the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, talks to El País about human relationships to tech.
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
DiPaola, D., Charisi, V., Breazeal, C., & Sabanovic, S. (2023, March). Children's Fundamental Rights in Human-Robot Interaction Research: A Systematic Review. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 561-566).
Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.