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

“We have to think a lot more carefully about how we design the interaction between people and AI.”

As junk web pages written by AI proliferate, the models that rely on that data will suffer.

After identifying major flaws in popular AI models, researchers are pushing for a new system to identify and report bugs.

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build AI.

AI literacy—and a healthy dose of human intuition—can take us pretty far.

As more deepfakes find their way onto the internet, we need to find the best way to detect these harmful videos.

MeMic is a wearable recording device developed in the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group.

Professor Deb Roy discusses his approach to creating spaces for listening and understanding in an age of polarization.

Professor Pattie Maes chose a career in computer science for practical reasons, but was drawn to the amazing research being done at MIT.

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

Future You, developed by Dr. ​​Pat Pataranutaporn, allows users to explore possible futures by chatting with an older version of themselves.

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

In Scientific American, Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn and others consider the ways that art shapes our understanding of and interactions with AI.

Labber Mark Weber and others are releasing an experimental version of an AI model for detecting money laundering on Bitcoin's blockchain.

Can AI collaborate with a chamber orchestra in real time? Tod Machover, a professor at MIT Media Lab is taking on this challenge in Korea.

The course is designed to help educators use AI tools and develop their skills with this emerging technology.

Media Lab alum Ramesh Srinivasan, now a professor at UCLA, talks to the Daily Bruin about his new podcast, Utopias.

In a special edition of Government Technology magazine focused on AI, executive editor Noelle Knell highlights the work of Cynthia Breazeal.

Jospin Hassan has drawn on curriculum developed by MIT RAISE and the Personal Robots group to build + share data science and AI skill sets.

In an interview with Textile Technology Source, Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono talks about the use of AI in the textiles industry.

Spinoff company Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder that empowers domain experts to build solutions without writing code.

Hal Abelson, co-director of MIT RAISE, talks to Kara Miller about the impact of AI on education.

Media Lab alum Matt Groh discusses a study finding that AI can help doctors diagnose dermatological conditions across different skin tones.a

Watch: Tech Briefs Magazine features a video of Dave Burke working with Media Lab Biomechatronics researcher Michael Fernandez.

Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland and other experts explore the potential of customized AI models trained with organization-specific data.

In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.

Media Lab alum Alexander Reben has been named as OpenAI’s first artist in residence.

In Success Magazine, Professor Cynthia Breazeal talks about how people can use AI technologies to enhance human abilities.

On the Aging Equal Podcast, Dr. Anastasia Ostrowski talks about co-designing social robots and her work collaborating with older adults.

Former Media Lab Professor W. Russell Neuman and other experts talk to CNET about the potential impacts of chatbots based on generative AI.

Media Lab alumni Ziv Epstein and Alexander Reben joined a panel discussion on the creative future of generative AI.

Professor Rosalind Picard talks about what gave her the inspiration to found a new field, Affective Computing.