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Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
AHA Program: Advancing Humans with AI
An iPhone for AI would be a big mistake. Here’s what we need to build instead.
The difference between a copilot and a ‘c0pilot.’
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…
Looking beyond smart cities
Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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
Media Lab researchers awarded MGAIC grants for exploring AI decision-making and human-AI musical collaboration.
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
This project presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated …
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Advancements in AI have revolutionized how machines perceive and interact with the world. However, almost all current progress has been lim…
Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Pat Pataranutaporn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USANattavudh Powdthavee, Nanyang Technological Universi…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
Shekar, S., Pataranutaporn, P., Sarabu, C., Cecchi, G. A., & Maes, P. (2025). People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy. NEJM AI, AIoa2300015.
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
Justen, L. (2025). Llms outperform experts on challenging biology benchmarks (No. arXiv:2505.06108). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.06108
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Pattie Maes + Pat Pataranutaporn explore how AI companions shape us—and how to design them to support human wellbeing.
This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Studies suggest benefits as well as harms from digital companion apps — but scientists worry about long-term dependency.
News coverage of a research collaboration with OpenAI investigating how chatbots affect users' social and emotional wellbeing
New research raises concerns that emotional reliance on AI chatbots could deepen social isolation for some users.
Higher use of chatbots like ChatGPT may correspond with increased loneliness and less time spent socializing with other people
Or are they kidding us into thinking they are looking out for our interests?
New research from the Media Lab and OpenAI shows that heavy chatbot usage is correlated with loneliness and reduced socialization.
Studies show those who engage emotionally with bot rely on it more and have fewer real-life relationships
The results are nuanced, since feelings of loneliness and social isolation often fluctuate and can be influenced by various factors.
A new pair of studies from MIT Media Lab and OpenAI found that frequent chatbot users experience more loneliness and emotional dependence.
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
New research from OpenAI and MIT finds that ChatGPT could be linked to loneliness for some frequent users.
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Media Lab researcher Cathy Fang about the findings and implications of the study.
We’re starting to get a better sense of how chatbots are affecting us—but there’s still a lot we don’t know.
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto "p…
A new collab with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication empowers young people to shape the future of journalism and civic dialogue
NeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a personalized, dynamic learning experi…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
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…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
This project simulates an urban environment where agents interact through conversations and their perception of the cityscape, influencing …
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
To facilitate real-world applications of personal sensing such as, triggering a mobile intervention or detecting early depression ons…