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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Looking beyond smart cities
Scalable AI Program for the Intelligent Evolution of Networks
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Braley, A., Lenz, G.S., Adjodah, D. et al. Why voters who value democracy participate in democratic backsliding. Nat Hum Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01594-w
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images at the DetectFakes Experiment and if you want to learn to sp…
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
The papers are intended as a resource for US policymakers.
Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…
Media Lab alum David Sengeh, now the Minister of Education for Sierra Leone, talks about efforts to transform their educational system.
Sparking conversations through artwork and envisioning future values for a spacefaring society
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
Studying group dynamics in space environments with virtual reality simulations to inform the design of future governance systems
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
Media Lab professor Tod Machover performed a new musical composition, "A Little Hub Symphony," during the SA+P advanced degree ceremony.
False assumptions about election malfeasance could create a “death spiral” for democracy — but also provide some hope for bipartisan repair.
Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
A global "AI Bill of Rights" that would help protect fairness, promote accountability, support innovation, and develop ethical guidelines.
Discussion on fact-checking and deepfake detection at the Election Misinformation Symposium 2022.
Of 25 proposed interventions for democracy tested, one developed by Human Dynamics researchers was among the most effective.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
Trying to catch up to a rapidly advancing technology, government agencies, industry, and academia are looking for guidance and best practic…
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with the…
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
Thousands of children participate in MIT-developed artificial intelligence curriculum.
Doorley, R., Berke, A., Noyman, A., Alonso, L., Ribó, J., Arroyo, V., Pons, M. and Larson, K., 2021. Mobility and COVID-19 in Andorra: Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spread. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(1), pp.183-193.
A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.
MIT senior Sihao Huang describes his experience working with Alex Siegenfeld towards the emerging field of complex systems science.
Ramesh Raskar discuses potential approaches to creating apps that can leverage citizen engagement to improve government responses to crises.
Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks during a TEDxMIT event about how distributed data technologies can help community social structures.
Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”
In a recent lecture, Deb Roy discussed social media, democracy, and the continuing importance of local, in-person conversations.
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at a…
Thibault Schrepel discusses a new paper on roads to improve antitrust law with co-authors from the Human Dynamics group.
The Space Governance Collaborative is an interdisciplinary group of researchers based at the MIT Media Lab with a growing network of g…
Alum Leonardo Bonanni, founder of spinoff Sourcemap, testified before the US Senate Committee on Finance in this virtual hearing.
MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
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 for…
The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey pl…
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these potenti…
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance m…
“In a resilient economy, power and decision-making should be distributed among a diverse set of stakeholders."
"Building the New Economy" envisions data co-ops to make it easier for people to control and analyze their own financial and health data.
Let’s Talk Privacy explores how the implementation of privacy and data governance policies might impact a variety of fields.Project Let’s T…
The rise of data privacy breaches and a look into policies that address these challenges
MIT Governance Lab and the Institute for Governance Reform work with the government of Sierra Leone to conduct rapid-response surveys.
Let’s jumpstart a new infrastructure for industry, health, learning, and the people.
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The Humanizing …
Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster and easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient.