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From Lab to Living Room: Gamifying AI Research

AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
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Gaze to the Stars in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
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Towards Socially-Intelligent Nonverbal Foundation Models

If we want AI to engage with us naturally—in classrooms, therapy, eldercare, and beyond—it needs to understand us, with or without words.&n…
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Open Dance Lab: Digital Platform for Examining, Experimenting, and Evolving Intangible Cultural Data

We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
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Cities That Feel: Modeling Emotional Interactions and Collective Behavior in Cityscapes

This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …
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AI for Smell and Taste

Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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NeuroChat

NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…
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Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek

Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
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Randi Williams ’16: AI technologist and education advocate headlines 2025 URCAD

The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Exploring Foundation Models For Personalized Mental Health Assessment With Less Labels

To facilitate real-world applications of personal sensing such as, triggering a mobile intervention or detecting  early depression ons…
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Cyber Subin: Human-AI Co-Dancing

Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
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AI-Implanted False Memories

Conversational AI Powered by Large Language Models Amplifies False Memories in Witness InterviewsThis study examines the impact of AI on hu…
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Climate Intelligence

Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
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CHARCHA: Captcha for GenAI

Secure  and Personalized Music Video Generation using CHARCHAMusic is a deeply personal experience and our aim is to enhance this with…
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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
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Decentralized AI

As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
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Arianna Huffington speaks at inaugural AHA Symposium

Arianna Huffington spoke at the inaugural AHA Symposium, during the opening panel: "What does it mean to flourish in the age of AI?"
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Federated Conformal Predictors for Distributed Uncertainty Quantification

Lu, Charles, et al. "Federated conformal predictors for distributed uncertainty quantification." International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). PMLR, 2023.
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Kids are learning how to make their own little language models

A new program aims to teach them how AI works, by getting hands-on.
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Here’s what happens when humans and AI dance together

At MIT, the Open Dance Lab is exploring how to preserve an ancient dance form with the help of artificial intelligence.
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How “personhood credentials” could help prove you’re a human online

A system proposed by researchers from MIT, OpenAI, Microsoft, and others could curb the use of deceptive AI.
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Will autonomous weapons make humans passive participants in war?

Experts warn AI-powered military systems may eventually push battlefield decision-making beyond the limits of human cognition
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Study: AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home surveillance

Researchers find large language models make inconsistent decisions about whether to call the police when analyzing surveillance videos.
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Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality

A growing body of research shows how AI can subtly mislead users—and even implant false memories.
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Here’s how people are actually using AI

Something peculiar and slightly unexpected has happened: people have started forming relationships with AI systems.
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New MIT Sloan research suggests that AI is more likely to complement, not replace, human workers

Authors are Roberto Rigobon, the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management at MIT Sloan, and postdoctoral associate Isabella Loaiza.
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BeWell Biomarkers

Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
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Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h - ABM)

Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
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sAIpien

Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
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LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users

Poole-Dayan, Elinor, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. "LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users." arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.17737 (2024).
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CMU and MIT Join Forces to Combat Deepfake Threats

The CHARCHA process offers a unique level of autonomy to the users who choose to interact with it.
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Personalized animations for wearables vs standard signals

Animations designed with the help of a pre-engineered GPT are coded further by the  AI to connect with a wearable sensor.   The r…
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Augmented Eternity and Swappable Identities

Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
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NeuraFutures

There are currently  UROP openings for this project. Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com NeuraFutures …
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Perspective-Aware AI

Perspective-Aware AI (PAI) is a new approach to AI that goes beyond simply avoiding bias. It focuses on understanding, representing, and in…
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Health sensing using wireless signals

Today’s health sensors (which monitor breathing, heartbeats, steps, etc.) require their users to wear them on their bodies. In contrast, ou…
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RFIQ: Food quality and safety detection using wireless stickers

​We have developed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to sense potentia…
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
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AI Training Can Undermine the Open Web. This Team Is Thinking Through Solutions

In the struggle over who can train AI models and how, there’s a casualty many people don’t realize: The open web.
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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Latent Lab: Legacy

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
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Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
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Cynthia Breazeal named 2024 AAAS Fellow

She is recognized for her distinguished contributions in the field of artificial intelligence education.
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Posthuman - Bloomberg Originals

Visiting Media Lab Professor Hossein Rahnama talks to Emily Chang about the potential impact of Human-AI agents.
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Large Population Models

Many of society’s most critical risks—from pandemic outbreaks to supply chain disruptions to cyber vulnerabilities—arise from the decisions…
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The Dichotomy of AI: MIT Professor Sandy Pentland Examines Whether It Poses a Threat or Opportunity to Humanity

Michael Casey sits down with MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland to discuss data ownership, data control, crypto, and AI technologies as th…
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Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws

After identifying major flaws in popular AI models, researchers are pushing for a new system to identify and report bugs.
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The Data That Powers AI Is Disappearing Fast

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

AI literacy—and a healthy dose of human intuition—can take us pretty far.
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Summer 2024 recommended reading from MIT

This year's list includes work from Media Lab students, faculty members, and alumni.
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How can humans and AI work together to detect deepfakes?

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

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Lensing: Cardiolinguistics for Atypical Angina

Conversations between two individuals—whether between doctor and patient, mental health therapist and client, or between two people romanti…
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OctoStudio

OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
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NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences

Baradari, Dünya, Nataliya Kosmyna, Oscar Petrov, Rebecah Kaplun, and Pattie Maes. 2025. “NeuroChat: A Neuroadaptive AI Chatbot for Customizing Learning Experiences.” arXiv [Cs.HC]. arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07599.
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Perspective-Aware AI: Can AI help us understand others? | Hossein Rahnama

Hossein Rahnama gave this talk on data science and AI at a recent TEDxBoston event.
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Enabling Perspective-Aware AI with Contextual Scene Graph Generation

Platnick, D., Alirezaie, M., & Rahnama, H. (2024). Enabling Perspective-Aware AI with Contextual Scene Graph Generation. Information, 15(12), 766. https://doi.org/10.3390/info15120766
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Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs

Alirezaie, Marjan, Hossein Rahnama, and Alex Pentland. "Structural Learning in the design of Perspective-Aware AI Systems using Knowledge Graphs." Proceedings of the AAAI. 2024.