School of Engineering welcomes new faculty
Fifteen new faculty members join six of the school’s academic departments.
School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences
President Sally Kornbluth and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discuss the future of AI
The conversation in Kresge Auditorium touched on the promise and perils of the rapidly evolving technology.
MIT faculty, instructors, students experiment with generative AI in teaching and learning
At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, panelists stressed the importance of developing critical thinking skills while leveraging technologies like generative AI.
A crossroads for computing at MIT
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building will form a new cluster of connectivity across a spectrum of disciplines in computing and artificial intelligence.
Most work is new work, long-term study of U.S. census data shows
The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.
Does technology help or hurt employment?
Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.
Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI
The 16 finalists — representing every school at MIT — will explore generative AI’s impact on privacy, art, drug discovery, aging, and more.
3 Questions: Shaping the future of work in an age of AI
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson, faculty co-directors of the new MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative, describe why the work matters and what they hope to achieve.
Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholars
The MIT seniors will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University.
Sadhana Lolla named 2024 Gates Cambridge Scholar
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in technology policy at Cambridge University.