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What do we know about the economics of AI?

Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu has long studied technology-driven growth. Here’s how he’s thinking about AI’s effect on the economy.

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MIT delegation mainstreams biodiversity conservation at the UN Biodiversity Convention, COP16

First organized MIT delegation highlights the Institute’s growing commitment to addressing climate change by showcasing research on biodiversity conservation, AI, and the role of local communities.

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A vision for U.S. science success

In a talk at MIT, White House science advisor Arati Prabhakar outlined challenges in medicine, climate, and AI, while expressing resolve to tackle hard problems.

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Ensuring a durable transition

Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI’s annual research conference.

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Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond

Researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care.

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3 Questions: How to prove humanity online

AI agents could soon become indistinguishable from humans online. Could “personhood credentials” protect people against digital imposters?

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Making climate models relevant for local decision-makers

A new downscaling method leverages machine learning to speed up climate model simulations at finer resolutions, making them usable on local levels.

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A community collaboration for progress

Graduate student Nolen Scruggs works with a local tenant association to address housing inequality as part of the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.

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MIT launches Working Group on Generative AI and the Work of the Future

New initiative is convening leading companies and nonprofits with support from Google’s Community Grants Fund.

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Generating the policy of tomorrow

Hundreds of participants from around the world joined the sixth annual MIT Policy Hackathon to develop data-informed policy solutions to challenges in health, housing, and more.