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Q&A: Building accountability behind our words — and AI’s — in civic conversations
Deb Roy, director of the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, calls for a renewed emphasis on responsibility in civic communication, asserting that even when AI is used to craft text, there needs to be accountability and “answerability.”
3 Questions: What is the best path forward for AI in academia?
A new essay from MIT Statistics and Data Science Center Director Sasha Rakhlin synthesizes recent discussions and readings about how AI is changing academia — particularly mathematics, statistics, machine learning, and engineering. He shares key questions that departments and universities need to think about, and how they can best work with AI going forward.
Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers
MIT Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou applies machine learning to make large cloud computing systems more efficient, secure, and reliable, which improves performance of web applications while reducing the negative environmental impacts of data centers.
Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry
Students in in MIT’s Concourse first-year learning community study the humanities as well as taking their core math, science, and engineering courses together. In this tight-knit community, they learn to think deeply about the human condition, debate challenging topics, and develop judgment about non-quantitative issues.
Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware
Since 2018, the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center has maintained a survey of the latest AI hardware to help researchers and the U.S. government gain a better understanding of the AI accelerator landscape and make better research and acquisition decisions about them.
Chris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries
MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg was recently named vice provost in recognition of her work advancing digital access, open and equitable scholarly publishing, and expanded support for data-intensive research.
MIT announces the MIT for America initiative, to strengthen STEM education across the country
MIT for America is a new initiative that seeks to strengthen STEM education nationally, at many levels of learning. The Institute-wide effort ranges across STEM fields and will engage students from kindergarten through community college, preparing them to live and work in a world increasingly shaped by science and technology.
Computational tools for society’s most complex challenges
MIT Associate Professor Cathy Wu uses reinforcement learning to help map out improvements to transportation and other multifaceted systems.
Documenting the tech worker movement
MIT PhD student JS Tan co-wrote with Clarissa Redwine the book "Against Tech Oligarchy," on the rise and fall of the tech worker labor movement of the past decade. The book chronicles how tech workers organized themselves, effective strategies they used, and effects the movement and tech development had on Silicon Valley labor politics.
3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs
Dear Dreamer, a free, AI-powered platform, walks middle and high school students through the “disciplined entrepreneurship” process taught at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
The InstructMesh generative AI tool helps users 3D print working, real-world items with ease by understanding how designs should look and which edits users truly want. You can prompt the system to produce a 3D model, then ask it to edit specific parts.
MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
Thanks to $2.1M from Google.org, the MIT Transit Lab will develop the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), an artificial intelligence platform unifying transit operations, communications, and government innovation in real-time decision-making.
This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
Researchers developed an AI system that beat human experts at the board wargame Stratego and outperformed more expensive models. This new system could someday help humans make strategic decisions in situations when some information is hidden.
Who we become when we talk to machines
Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.
The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details
The use of a single hiring algorithm by multiple firms, known as algorithmic monoculture, is less problematic for job seekers than past research has shown, and may even be a good thing depending on the approach used, according to a study by MIT researchers.