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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Affective Computing

Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Ethics

Ethics Initiative
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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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Living Distance

Living Distance is a mission and a fantasy realized, in which a wisdom tooth is sent to outer space and back down to Earth again. Carried...
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It's OK that Amazon will (likely) get the .amazon domain

Ito shares his thoughts on the difficulty of making the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appears to be obviously wrong.
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Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
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Floral Cosmonauts: Self-assembling silver dendrite networks in microgravity

Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have ...
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Telepresent Drawings in Space

This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...
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Six suborbital research payloads from MIT fly to space and back

Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
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Open or closed? The answer is both.

Joi Ito tells Reid Hoffman what he learned about management, diversity, and openness from being a DJ in Chicago in the ‘80s.
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The death of curiosity

How your company is killing innovation.
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The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...
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The Science of AI Research

We must proactively tackle the economic, social, and societal implications that accompany the widespread deployment of AI technology. In ...
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The evolution of AI research and the study of its social implications

Researchers find that, in published AI research, industry is overtaking academia, and the diversity of fields represented has declined.
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President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone visits MIT

Public talk outlines ambitious plans to make his nation a hub for technology and innovation.
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The 'Atlas of Inequality' maps micro-level segregation

MIT Media Lab’s new interactive “Atlas of Inequality” shows that “segregation is not just about where you live, but what you do."
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Making a path to ethical, socially-beneficial artificial intelligence

Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.
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Supposedly ‘fair’ algorithms can perpetuate discrimination

"We must provide a mechanism for civil society to be informed and engaged in the way in which algorithms are used."
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Beware corporate ‘machinewashing’ of AI

Four Lab researchers caution against credulous acceptance of rosy humanistic pronouncements.
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How different types of knowledge impact the growth of new firms

Study explores the micromechanisms underlying regional economic diversification.