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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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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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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Leveraging artificial intelligence for the assessment of severity of depressive symptoms

This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Becoming Human - AI's Next Evolution Part Two: AI & We

Media Lab researcher Nikhil Singh and alums Aruna Sankaranarayanan and Matt Groh discuss ways that deepfakes may affect the 2024 elections.
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AI and the 2024 elections

Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland was among the experts participating in a panel discussion on how AI may affect the 2024 elections.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Detect DeepFakes: How to counteract misinformation created by AI

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
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Community Biotechnology

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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The Shipt Calculator: Crowdsourcing Gig Worker Pay Data to Audit Algorithmic Management

The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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VALIS: 2023 Production

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…
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Experts call for legal ‘safe harbor’ so researchers, journalists and artists can evaluate AI tools

PhD student Shayne Longpre (Human Dynamics) discusses an open letter he co-authored with collaborators.
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Inside your dreamscape

Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.
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Targeted Dream Incubation

Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
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Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
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Do video doorbells really help to deter crime?

The research on video doorbells—which includes a paper from the Human Dynamics group—hasn't found strong evidence that they reduce crime.
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Curiosity Stream: AI tipping point

Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard and other experts discuss the opportunities and risks posed by rapid advances in AI.
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How should AI-generated content be labeled?

In a new working paper, researchers consider the most effective ways to label online content as AI-generated, misleading, or both.
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'If you have a face, you have a place in the conversation about AI,' expert says

On NPR’s Fresh Air, alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini (Civic Media) talks about the social implications of artificial intelligence.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Doctors have more difficulty diagnosing disease when looking at images of darker skin

In a study published in Nature Medicine, alum Matt Groh, Prof. Rosalind Picard, and colleagues found assistance from an AI model can help.
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Deep learning-aided decision support for diagnosis of skin disease across skin tones

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
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Why AI should move slow and fix things

Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
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Diagnosing Diagnosis in Dermatology

Addressing Bias in Physician-Machine PartnershipsThis research program addresses how AI assistance can enhance physician decision-making on…
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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How to Train Your Robot

How to Train Your Robot is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this course, students…
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Gigaverse

Dan Calacci, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, talks about one of his projects that centers around the gig economy.
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OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Machover’s VALIS this way comes

Professor Tod Machover talks to the Boston Musical Intelligencer about updating VALIS for its first live performance in almost 30 years.
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Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
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AI raises complicated questions about authorship

Robert Mahari, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, and other experts talk to Inside Higher Ed about copyright & generative AI tools.
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AI: What does it mean? And how is it making these decisions?

In an interview with Chamber Music America, Media Lab Professor Tod Machover talks about AI and music.
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Bringing design justice to the classroom and workplace

Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
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AI and Accountability: Who is responsible for managing AI?

On the Technically Optimistic podcast, Prof. Rosalind Picard and others discuss the challenges of accountability and responsibility in AI.
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Robots are already with us—how we treat them tells us a lot about ourselves, here's why

For BBC Science Focus, Media Lab research scientist Dr. Kate Darling considers the potential harms of mistreating robots.
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Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

Postdoc Ziv Epstein, PhD student Robert Mahari, & Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld consider the issues of generative AI and copyright law.
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The ethics and tech of dream seeding

In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
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AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
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Does AI hold the same values as we do?

During TEDxBentleyU, Belén C. Saldías Fuentes invited the audience to consider the cultural biases built into tools like ChatGPT.
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Kate Darling, robot expert: "We shouldn’t laugh at people who fall in love with a machine. It’s going to be all of us"

Dr. Kate Darling, a research scientist with the Media Lab’s Personal Robots group, talks to El País about human relationships to tech.
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Day of AI curriculum meets the moment

Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
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If art is how we express our humanity, where does AI fit in?

MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
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Children's Fundamental Rights in Human-Robot Interaction Research: A Systematic Review

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).
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The A.I. Chatbots Have Arrived. Time to Talk to Your Kids.

Artificial intelligence can make adults nervous, but experts say exploring it as a family is the best way to understand its pros and cons.
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How soon will M3gan become reality? Robot ethicists weigh in

Kate Darling talks about the film M3gan and the future of artificial intelligence systems designed to have human relationships.
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In Nature Communications, Dava Newman and co-authors present a framework for more robust, reliable, and responsible machine learning systems

Machine Learning Technology Readiness Levels (MLTRL) apply systems engineering principles to the development of machine learning algorithms.
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Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
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AML by design: Designing a central bank digital currency to stifle money laundering

Human Dynamics group members explore how technical CBDC design choices can be used to make a CBDC inherently resistant to money laundering.
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ML Learning

ML Learning
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence