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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
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Why AI hardware needs to be open

An iPhone for AI would be a big mistake. Here’s what we need to build instead.
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AI can’t really be your ‘companion.’ We need new words for things like that.

The difference between a copilot and a ‘c0pilot.’
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Large Population Models

Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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BuzzCam

Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
Architecture Machine Group
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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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Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications

Lecamwasam, K. and Chaudhuri, T.R. (2025). Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02856
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Media Lab researchers awarded grants from MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium

Media Lab researchers awarded MGAIC grants for exploring AI decision-making and human-AI musical collaboration.
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sAIpien

Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy

This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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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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Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing context in live music performances

Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Algorithmic Inheritance: Surname Bias in AI Decisions Reinforces Intergenerational Inequality

Pat Pataranutaporn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USANattavudh Powdthavee, Nanyang Technological Universi…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Theme | Attention, Memory + Learning

Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
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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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People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy

Shekar, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Sarabu, C., Cecchi, G. A., & Maes, P. (2025). People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy. NEJM AI, AIoa2300015.
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Measuring AI performance in biology
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Doodlebot - Creative AI learning

Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
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LLMs Outperform Experts on Challenging Biology Benchmarks

Justen, L. (2025). Llms outperform experts on challenging biology benchmarks (No. arXiv:2505.06108). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.06108
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection

Pattie Maes + Pat Pataranutaporn explore how AI companions shape us—and how to design them to support human wellbeing.
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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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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Supportive? Addictive? Abusive? How AI companions affect our mental health

Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.
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Early methods for studying affective use and emotional well-being in ChatGPT: An OpenAI and MIT Media Lab Research collaboration in the news

News coverage of a research collaboration with OpenAI investigating how chatbots affect users' social and emotional wellbeing
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ChatGPT may be making us lonelier

New research raises concerns that emotional reliance on AI chatbots could deepen social isolation for some users.
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OpenAI Study Finds Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness

Higher use of chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and less time spent socializing with other people
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Do AI companies really care about safety?

Or are they kidding us into thinking they are looking out for our interests?
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How chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis

New research from the Media Lab and OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization.
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Heavy ChatGPT users tend to be more lonely, suggests research

Studies show those who engage emotionally with bot rely on it more and have fewer real-life relationships
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OpenAI says ChatGPT might be making its most frequent users more lonely

The results are nuanced, since feelings of loneliness and social isolation often fluctuate and can be influenced by various factors.
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ChatGPT might be making its most frequent users more lonely, study by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab suggests

A new pair of studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found that frequent chatbot users experience more loneliness and emotional dependence.
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Design as an Astronaut

A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
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New research shows link between ChatGPT use and loneliness

New research from OpenAI and MIT finds that ChatGPT could be linked to loneliness for some frequent users.
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Study finds extensive AI chatbot use can deepen feelings of loneliness

Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Media Lab researcher Cathy Fang about the findings and implications of the study.
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OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional well-being

We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.
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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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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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FRONTLINE Launches Youth Civic Voices Initiative

A new collab with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication empowers young people to shape the future of journalism and civic dialogue
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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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Autonomous micro-mobility for food deliveries

Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
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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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CLIMB: Data Foundations for Large Scale Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models

Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
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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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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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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…