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Looking beyond smart cities
Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
PlusMinus
Former Labber Rana el Kaliouby, current CEO and co-founder of Affectiva, talks with Reid Hoffman during an episode of Masters of Scale.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
ML Learning
Middle school students reimagine the YouTube platform. Students consider the stakeholders in YouTube, the goal of the recommendation algo...
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
In October, MIT hosted the kickoff for Massachusetts STEM Week, which included a keynote by Cynthia Breazeal.
An inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive has some advice to improve science, ethics, and the life-saving potential of these technologies.
Kevin Esvelt and other experts talk about the risks and possible benefits of using gene drives to eliminate diseases and invasive species.
Community Biotechnology
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Creating technology for social change
The Disobedience Award has closed.
Disobedience Award
www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This f...
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
The problem of ethical decision making presents a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating ...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
How to Train Your Robot Companion is a curriculum for students in 5-8th grade to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. In this cour...
Digital Currency Initiative
Ritesh Noothigattu, Snehalkumar 'Neil' S. Gaikwad, Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Iyad Rahwan, Pradeep Ravikumar, Ariel D. Procaccia AAAI 2018: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Acceptance rate of 24.6%)
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
By Kevin EsveltResearchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require pu...
Ethics Initiative
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving...
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The initiative, working ...
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Despite gazillions of le...
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The Humanizin...
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...
A new curriculum has been designed by MIT researchers and collaborators to teach middle school students about artificial intelligence.
The University of South Carolina profiles its alum Blakeley Payne, now a master’s student in the Personal Robots group.
A new study uses the famous trolley problem to show how our culture shapes our moral beliefs.
Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.
"It’s time for us to move beyond 'bias' as the anchor point for our efforts to build ethical and fair algorithms."
Berke, Alex, Calacci, Dan, Larson, Kent, Pentland, Alex (Sandy), "The Tradeoff Between the Utility and Risk of Location Data and Implications for Public Good," arXiv.org, 2019.
Kevin Esvelt and other experts discuss potential technological approaches to combating mosquito-borne diseases.
Unnatural Selection tackles tough questions about CRISPR gene editing, designer babies, and more.
What would social media look like if it served the public interest?
Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.
These 50 women made bold moves, raised major capital, and wowed us with their fearless vision.
Cindy Sherman Bishop developed a new method for image analysis to analyze the spring 2019 abortion legislation and related news coverage.
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
Blockchain technology is changing the nature of money and organizations. We should probably start pondering the potential consequences.
Arielle Duhaime-Ross talks to biohacker Josiah Zayner, Alex Pearlman, and Ling Ling Chang about norms, ethics, and regulation.
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Blakeley Payne and Cynthia Breazeal discuss Blakeley’s open source AI curriculum for middle school students.
Cristina Quinn shares what she learned in a visit to the AI + Ethics summer camp run by Personal Robots group student Blakeley Payne.
This summer, the Personal Robots group will be hosting a week-long workshop at the MIT Media Lab to teach kids about AI and ethics!
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...
Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.
An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
Jonathan Zittrain discusses the Assembly program at the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center.
Kate Darling explores the human implications of the ways we treat robots and other machines.
Joi Ito talks to Walter Isaacson about AI, ethics, biotech, and how being a DJ prepared him to become the director of the Media Lab.
Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.
Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.
Tech companies working on artificial intelligence find that a diverse staff can help avoid biased algorithms that cause public embarrassment
How does the public think autonomous vehicles should resolve moral trade-offs? Can we use their responses to build a new moral compass?
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...