LocationBoston Opera House Description
Former Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Former AT&T Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
LocationATLAS Institute, UC Boulder, Boulder, CO DescriptionHow is social media changing the way social networks solve complex tasks? And w…
At EmTech 2017, Iyad Rahwan discussed artificial intelligence, urbanization, and the future of work with MIT Technology Review senior edito…
LocationHarvard University, Northwest Labs, 52 Oxford Street DescriptionProfessor Sandy Pentland, PhD student Elliott Hedman, and alumnus J…
LocationBoston Opera House DescriptionTEDxCambridge celebrates the remarkable innovation, creativity, and inspiration found within New Engl…
Former Research Assistant
Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionIn this talk, Peter Sheridan Dodds and Chris Danforth will discuss their work on building what th…
LocationAlserkal Avenue, DubaiDescriptionCities are rising at a fast pace. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has seen this wit…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-493 DescriptionUnethical behavior such as corruption or dishonesty is widespread and comes with efficiency and f…
Peer production sites such as Wikipedia, Citizen Science, and even e-learning platforms depend critically on maintaining the engagement of …
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionFor decades, physical behavioral labs have been the primary method for conducting controlled expe…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-240 DescriptionThe finding that there are few, if any, cases of war between democratic states has generated a gr…
At EmTech 2017, Iyad Rahwan discusses how can we anticipate and respond to major disruptions from artificial intelligence, the web, and soc…
How can we reap the benefits of Artificial Intelligence while minimizing the risks it poses to society?
Opinion aggregation on social media uses various mechanisms, such as "Likes" or thumbs-up/-down, which handle a single item at a time. In …
We present Norman, world's first psychopath AI. Norman was inspired by the fact that the data used to teach a machine learning algorithm ca…
Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with human …
Iyad Rahwan, associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, explores how Artificial Intelligence challenges our morality. If a driverless car mu…
There is a wide cultural belief in the power of the Internet and social media as enablers of collective intelligence. They help us spread i…
The Internet has unleashed the capacity for planetary-scale collective problem solving (also known as crowdsourcing). However, the very ope…
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's …
The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey pl…
Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutions…
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance m…
Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate wi…
We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In se…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.This project will support …
TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. It…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving, …
Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …
The problem of ethical decision making presents a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating et…
For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotion …
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these potenti…
When an automated car harms someone, who is blamed by those who hear about it? In this project, we asked participants to conside…
(AI)-powered media manipulations have widespread societal implications for journalism and democracy, national security, and art.
How crowdcomputing can enable computational social scientists to study human behavior at scale by engaging with millions of Internet users
We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
Becoming Someone is a multi-modal concept that lives across Medium, Instagram, and human minds. It is comprised of The Ever Contracting Voi…
With its increasingly humanlike design, artificial intelligence gives many people the creeps—though usually not intentionally. But a new ro…
Scientists seek to learn the decisions human drivers make in collision situations to help predict how autonomous vehicles should respond.
There are over one million registered charities in the United States alone, and many more worldwide. How do you choose among them? MyG…
People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six deg…
Rahwan, Iyad, Manuel Cebrian, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, et al. “Machine Behaviour.” Nature 568, no. 7753 (April 2019): 477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1138-y.
The MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that w…
Measuring Cooperation at Scale
Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles
Transitioning from low-income to high-income occupations is difficult because the skills associated with each type of job are so different.
Rutherford, A., Lupu, Y., Cebrian, M., Rahwan, I., LeVeck, B., & Garcia-Herranz, M. (2016). Disentangling Network and Global Effects in Constitutional Political Development. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04012.
In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wid…
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on Ex…
Sometimes the scariest place to be is your own mind. Or Reddit at night.Shelley is an AI program that generates the beginnings of horror st…
Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes this …
The robot takeover will start in the smaller cities.
Nostalgia BoxA deep learning visualization of your own memoriesBy Aubrey Simonson Commissioned by Manuel Cebrian and Iyad RahwanNostal…
Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer.
Rahwan, I., Dsouza, S., Rutherford, A., Naroditskiy, V., McInerney, J., Venanzi, M., Jennings, N., Cebrian M. (2013) "Global Manhunt Pushes the Limits of Social Mobilization", Computer, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 68-75, April, 2013