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

Deep Angel is an artificial intelligence that erases objects from photographs. The algorithm is hosted on http://deepangel.media.mit.e…

Machines powered by artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic, and …

Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. But …

Media manipulation technologies have the power to vanish people from photographs. Yet their souls live on in the deep memory of these algor…

The problem of ethical decision making presents  a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating et…

We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In se…

BeeMe a massive immersive social game that directly draws inspiration from popular culture, literature, performing arts, gaming, and YouTub…

Burning Man is a magical place that gets the best of human creativity and collaboration to flourish. To further understand what makes this …

TuringBox is a platform that makes it easier for social and behavioral scientists to study Artificial Intelligence algorithms. It…

Project website: shelley.ai Human-AI collaborated stories: stories.shelley.ai Follow @shelley_ai to collaborate wi…

Nostalgia BoxA deep learning visualization of your own memoriesBy Aubrey Simonson Commissioned by Manuel Cebrian and Iyad RahwanNostal…

There are over one million registered charities in the United States alone, and many more worldwide. How do you choose among them? MyG…

Measuring Cooperation at Scale

Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance m…

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…

Political constitutions describe the fundamental principles by which nation-states are governed, the political and legal state institutions…

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving, …

Emotional content is an important part of language. There are many use cases now showing that natural language processing is becoming an in…

The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey pl…

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…

For centuries, across geographies, religions, and cultures, people try to innovate ways of scaring each other. Creating a visceral emotion …

Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's …

The Internet has unleashed the capacity for planetary-scale collective problem solving (also known as crowdsourcing). However, the very ope…

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…

Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI), a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with human …

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…

Becoming Someone is a multi-modal concept that lives across Medium, Instagram, and human minds. It is comprised of The Ever Contracting Voi…

What would your city look like after a disaster? Deep Empathy is a collaboration between the Scalable Coopera…

People often say that we live in a small world. In a brilliant experiment, legendary social psychologist Stanley Milgram proved the six deg…

In 2009, DARPA launched the Network Challenge to explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wid…

How best to govern society and promote cooperation is a centuries-old debate: is cooperation best maintained by a central authority, or is …