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.
Social sciences
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.
AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self
By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You is aimed at reducing anxiety and guiding young people to make better choices.
Who will benefit from AI?
In campus talk, Daron Acemoglu offers vision of “machine usefulness,” rather than autonomous “intelligence,” to help workers and spread prosperity.