Out of 180 proposals submitted across MIT, 36 were accepted for seed funding this year through the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC). Several Media Lab teams are among the grantees:

• Cynthia Breazeal of the Personal Robots group, with Eric Klopfer (Comparative Media Studies/Writing), received funding for their proposal, “Empowering Underserved Students: AI-Driven Calculus Tutoring for Equitable Education." 
  
• Paul Liang of the Multisensory Intelligence group, with  Wojciech Matusik ( EECS), received funding for their proposal,  “Multimodal Tactile Sensing for Robotics.” 
  
• Pattie Maes and Manuel Cherep of the Fluid Interfaces group were awarded a grant for their proposal titled “Understanding How LLM Agents Deviate from Human Choices,” which will investigate divergences between AI and human decision-making.
• Joe Paradiso, Perry Naseck, and Lancelot Blanchard of the Responsive Environments group received funding for their proposal titled “Developing jam_bots: Real-Time Collaborative Agents for Live Human-AI Musical Improvisation,” which is focused on enabling co-creative experiences between musicians and AI agents. Media Lab alumni Anna Huang (Music and Theater Arts; EECS) and Eran Ergozy (Music and Theater Arts) are also part of this team. 

The MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium is a presidential initiative aimed at advancing interdisciplinary applications of generative AI to improve human work, creativity, and wellbeing.