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Advances of AI chatbots like ChatGPT heighten concern, experts say.
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…
Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results.
Pattie Maes and Ed Boyden receive Aging Brain Initiative seed grants to advance innovative Alzheimer’s research.
Media Lab researchers awarded MGAIC grants for exploring AI decision-making and human-AI musical collaboration.
Looking beyond smart cities
Study: Using AI Could Cost You Brainpower
Check project's website: https://www.brainonllm.comWith today's wide adoption of LLM products like ChatGPT from OpenAI, humans and bus…
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
An iPhone for AI would be a big mistake. Here’s what we need to build instead.
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
Researchers from Fluid Interfaces receive 2024 Amazon Research Award for work in AWS AI research area.
Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
Media Lab’s Nataliya Kosmyna comments in Nature on new global ethical guidelines for neurotechnologies drafted by UNESCO.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Lecamwasam, K. and Chaudhuri, T.R. (2025). Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02856
E-LIG, laser-enabled method for flexible printed electronics, is on the May 2025 Advanced Science cover
We introduce E-LIG, a laser-enabled, additive fabrication method for flexible, double-sided printed circuit boards (PCBs) with integrated …
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
Justen, L. (2025). Llms outperform experts on challenging biology benchmarks (No. arXiv:2505.06108). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.06108
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
What if you could go back in time to your childhood homes? Or what if you could revisit an old vacation spot that you once visited? Or even…
This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
If we want AI to engage with us naturally—in classrooms, therapy, eldercare, and beyond—it needs to understand us, with or without words.&n…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness InterviewsThis study examines the impact of AI on hu…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
Today Vega is the co-founder and CEO of Augmental.
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Animations designed with the help of a pre-engineered GPT are coded further by the AI to connect with a wearable sensor. The r…
There are currently UROP openings for this project. AttentivU is a neural AI platform for wireless non-invasive sensing of pers…
Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
MoveU is a wearable vestibular stimulation device for providing proprioceptive haptic feedback in virtual reality (VR). The device in…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Emotional arousal influences focus, attention, and decision-making, which are critical when driving. To help promote an optimal arousal lev…
We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
Baradari, Dünya, Nataliya Kosmyna, Oscar Petrov, Rebecah Kaplun, and Pattie Maes. 2025. “NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences.” arXiv [Cs.HC]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07599.