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Digital Currency Initiative
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The Humanizin...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Space Exploration Initiative
Proponents say payments with a digital dollar would be faster and easier. Opponents say it would be costly and inefficient.
US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
The first MIT Computational Law report features an essay by Sandy Pentland, head of the Human Dynamics group.
Enhancing human physical capability
Moinina David Sengeh, PhD ’16, is trying to bring innovation into “the heart of government.”
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Trying to catch up to a rapidly advancing technology, government agencies, industry, and academia are looking for guidance and best pract...
Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.
Creating technology for social change
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Ethan Zuckerman speaks at a gathering of Senators and Representatives who came to MIT for an Aspen Institute event in May, 2019.
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
Joy Buolamwini has been selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40.”
This is a grassroots challenge to get friends to participate in democracy by making calls to congresspeople in all 50 states. Live phone ...
The Electome: Where AI meets political journalismThe Electome project is a machine-driven mapping and analysis of public sphere content a...
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...
Rubez Chong writes about the Center for Civic Media’s work with the City of Boston’s Office of Returning Citizens.
What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Ma...
Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance, Nick Obradovich, Dustin Tingley, Iyad Rahwan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, 201803765; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803765115
On excessively hot days, there are more likely to be fatal car accidents and food safety problems, and police officers and government foo...
First, climate change was blamed for coastal flooding and wildfires. The links seemed intuitive and the effects observable. But more...
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
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The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
The Honest Crowds project addresses shortcomings of traditional survey techniques in the modern information and big data age. Web survey ...
Frank, M. R., Cebrian, M., Pickard, G., & Rahwan, I. (2017). Validating Bayesian truth serum in large-scale online human experiments. PloS one, 12(5), e0177385.
Timing can be everything when it comes to successfully expanding constitutional rights. Now, a study looking at how constitutions around ...
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
FiftyNifty.org takes the hassle out of calling your lawmakers.
Q&A: How Twitter explains the 2016 election