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Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work Launches at MIT

Recent launch event for the center featured discussions on pro-worker AI, wealth inequality, and the future of liberal democracy.

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Artificial Intelligence

MIT affiliates named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

Postdoc Zongyi Li, Associate Professor Tess Smidt, and seven additional alumni will be supported in the development of AI against difficult problems.

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Artificial IntelligenceFinance

Improving the workplace of the future

Economics doctoral student Whitney Zhang investigates how technologies and organizational decisions shape labor markets.

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Artificial Intelligence

Can large language models figure out the real world?

New test could help determine if AI systems that make accurate predictions in one area can understand it well enough to apply that ability to a different area.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

The sweet taste of a new idea

Sendhil Mullainathan brings a lifetime of unique perspectives to research in behavioral economics and machine learning.

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Artificial Intelligence

MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work

With support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.

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Artificial Intelligence

Aligning AI with human values

“We need to both ensure humans reap AI’s benefits and that we don’t lose control of the technology,” says senior Audrey Lorvo.

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Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

Making the art world more accessible

The startup NALA, which began as an MIT class project, directly matches art buyers with artists.

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MIT welcomes Frida Polli as its next visiting innovation scholar

The neuroscientist turned entrepreneur will be hosted by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and focus on advancing the intersection of behavioral science and AI across MIT.

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Artificial Intelligence

MIT affiliates named 2024 Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellows

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

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