• Login
  • Register

Work for a Member company and need a Member Portal account? Register here with your company email address.

Research
Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Research
Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Research
Human Dynamics

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

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Research
MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Article Research

The Entrepreneur’s Attorney: A penchant for the cutting edge

Alum Brent Britton, now an intellectual property attorney, talks to Boston University School of Law.
Project Research

Legal Storytelling

"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
Publication Research

Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling

Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, Daniel Kessler, Eric Ma, Tal August, Irene Li, Alex Pentland, Yoon Kim, Deb Roy, and Jad Kabbara. 2024. Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 7194–7219, Bangkok, Thailand.
Project Research

Data Provenance for AI

A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Article Research

Study: Transparency is often lacking in datasets used to train large language models

Researchers created a tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias
Post Research

"AI Comes Out of the Closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
Project Research

AI Comes Out of the Closet: Using AI-Generated Virtual Characters to Help Individuals Practice LGBTQIA+ Advocacy

AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
Article Research

AI raises complicated questions about authorship

Robert Mahari, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, and other experts talk to Inside Higher Ed about copyright & generative AI tools.
Article Research

Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

Postdoc Ziv Epstein, PhD student Robert Mahari, & Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld consider the issues of generative AI and copyright law.
Archived
Project Research

AI Alchemy Lab

Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
Archived
Article Research

The "godfather of AI" says he's worried about "the end of people"

Ziv Epstein, a researcher in the Human Dynamics group, discusses the relationship between humans and AI and where it could be headed.
Article Research

Is the panic over AI art overblown? We speak with artists and experts.

Lawsuits over the development and use of AI tools can have huge implications on the creative process and intellectual property ownership.