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Iyad Rahwan

Former Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Former AT&T Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
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How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself

Critics, practitioners, and researchers like Human Dynamics PhD student Ziv Epstein talk about AI-generated art..
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Human Detection of Machine-Manipulated Media

(AI)-powered media manipulations have widespread societal implications for journalism and democracy, national security, and art.
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Is it okay to sacrifice one person to save many? How you answer depends on where you’re from.

A new study uses the famous trolley problem to show how our culture shapes our moral beliefs.
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From BeeMe to Bandersnatch: The Youniverse of science and fiction

How does it feel to be the internet?
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Six Degrees of Separation at Burning Man

What our experiment in the desert taught us about social networks and human cooperation.
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AI researchers want to study AI the same way social scientists study humans

Maybe we don’t need to look inside the black box after all. We just need to watch how machines behave, instead.
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Understanding machine behaviour

CIFAR Fellows Hugo Larochelle and Matthew Jackson argue for a new scientific discipline to study the broad effects of AI.
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It's time to study machines the way we study humans

A paper introduces machine behavior: the interdisciplinary study of AI systems as a new class of actors with unique behavioral patterns.
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Studying the behavior of AI

A new paper frames the emerging interdisciplinary field of machine behavior
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The evolution of AI research and the study of its social implications

Researchers find that, in published AI research, industry is overtaking academia, and the diversity of fields represented has declined.
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A study on driverless-car ethics offers a troubling look into our values

Scientists seek to learn the decisions human drivers make in collision situations to help predict how autonomous vehicles should respond.
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Beware corporate ‘machinewashing’ of AI

Four Lab researchers caution against credulous acceptance of rosy humanistic pronouncements.
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Give way to droids, bots, and drones: the driverless city will look like this

An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.
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Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal

Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles
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How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?

Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences
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We should be worried about the impacts of climate change on mental health

Climate change presents a grave threat to overall human well-being, including mental health.
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Clearly Complex

A report from the Symposium on Trust and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles (STEAV).
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Distinct workplace skills could explain disappearance of US middle class

Transitioning from low-income to high-income occupations is difficult because the skills associated with each type of job are so different.
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Skillscape: How skills affect your job trajectory, and their implications for automation by AI

This blog post summarizes the key findings of our new paper Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills published in Science Advances by…
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Defining the dilemmas of artificial intelligence

Media Lab researchers are part of a growing movement at MIT to explore the regulatory frontiers of AI—in society and in our hearts and minds
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MIT launches Task Force on the Work of the Future

Institute-wide effort will study the evolution of jobs in an age of technological advancement.
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Machines now know how to terrorise humans

The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
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Machine behavior needs to be an academic discipline

We cannot certify that an AI agent is ethical by looking at its source code.
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Why we need a new, algorithmic social contract

How can we reap the benefits of Artificial Intelligence while minimizing the risks it poses to society?
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Teaching an AI about empathy — and learning about ourselves

At UNICEF Innovation, we’re supporting our partners to help build models that give us a better understanding of empathy. We hear in the new…
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"El robot que escribe libros de terror" Oppenheimer Presenta # 1741

Research scientist Manuel Cebrian discusses Shelley with CNN en Español host Andrés Oppenheimer. 
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MIT trained an AI to tug at your heartstrings (and purse strings)

Researchers want to know what images make us feel more attached to other people. They call their project “Deep Empathy.”
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MyGoodness: Maximizing Effectiveness of Charitable Giving

It’s the holiday season, which to many people means a season of giving—to loved ones, colleagues, public radio and television, and to any n…
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What countries' constitutions reveal about how societies evolve

Timing can be everything when it comes to successfully expanding constitutional rights. Now, a study looking at how constitutions around th…
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In these small cities, AI advances could be costly

It’s long been clear that urbanization and automated technologies are shaping society, but it hasn’t been obvious how the two forces affect…
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AI and the future of work

At EmTech 2017, Iyad Rahwan discusses how can we anticipate and respond to major disruptions from artificial intelligence, the web, and soc…
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AI and the future of work, Q&A with Iyad Rahwan and Elizabeth Woyke

At EmTech 2017, Iyad Rahwan discussed artificial intelligence, urbanization, and the future of work with MIT Technology Review senior edito…
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An artificial intelligence bot writes stories of the macabre

“Shelley” is an artificial intelligence bot who writes stories inspired by a subreddit of aspiring horror writers.
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This AI writes horror stories, and they’re surprisingly scary

Which is scarier: vampires, demon-possessed children, or the idea that artificial intelligence could one day rule the world?A new project f…
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MIT researchers trained an AI to write horror stories based on 140,000 Reddit posts

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…
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Think AI is scary already? This software writes its own horror stories

Shelley's artificial neural network takes turns with humans in collaborative storytelling.
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MIT researchers bring a horror fiction-writing robot named Shelley to life

With its increasingly humanlike design, artificial intelligence gives many people the creeps—though usually not intentionally. But a new ro…
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These horror stories created by artificial intelligence are the stuff of nightmares

An artificial intelligence is creating worlds where possessed dolls and other creatures chase after frightened, helpless hum…
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Can artificial intelligence learn to scare us?

With Shelley, the world’s first artificial intelligence-human horror story collaboration, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps.
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Can AI learn to scare us? With Shelley, MIT researchers aim for goosebumps

Introducing Shelley: the world’s first AI-human horror story collaboration
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Automation will have a bigger impact on jobs in smaller cities

The robot takeover will start in the smaller cities.
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Using emoji to teach software sarcasm and slang

DeepMoji uses emoji to teach a machine learning algorithm to understand slang and sarcasm.
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"Psychological roadblocks" for self-driving cars

Iyad Rahwan on the trust gap between people and autonomous vehicles.
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An Algorithm Trained on Emoji Knows When You’re Being Sarcastic on Twitter

Understanding sarcasm could help AI fight racism, abuse, and harassment.
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What can we learn from emojis?

We teach our model an understanding of emotions by finding millions of tweets with one of the top 64 emojis.
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Blockchain and next gen cars

Toyota pushes into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of cars.
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Crowdsourcing Disobedience

Calling on you to help track down those who challenge norms or laws for the good of society.
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MIT Media Lab to participate in new $27 million initiative on ethics and governance in AI

Bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence.
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Bandit strategies in social search: the case of the DARPA red balloon challenge
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Can Autonomous Cars Learn to be Moral?
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Driverless cars: Who gets protected?
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When should driverless cars kill their own passengers?
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Should a Self-Driving Car Kill Two Jaywalkers or One Law-Abiding Citizen?
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Scene at MIT: A nightmare on Ames Street

“People are afraid of artificial intelligence, from autonomous cars making unethical decisions in accidents, to robots taking our jobs and …
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Clinton, Trump, the White House too, terrifyingly transformed by MIT’s ‘Nightmare Machine’
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Whose Life Should Your Car Save?
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The Social Dilemma of Driverless Cars

Iyad Rahwan, associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, explores how Artificial Intelligence challenges our morality. If a driverless car mu…