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Teaching AI Outside the Computer Science Bubble

Teaching AI Outside the Computer Science Bubble

When we talk about artificial intelligence in the classroom, the conversation usually circles back to computer science majors, complex algorithms, and heavy coding lines. But a recent pilot program at the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing shifts that focus completely by inviting educators from literature, history, biology, and beyond to rethink how machine learning fits into their own subjects. As someone who has watched the rapid integration of automation into everyday life, I believe this…
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When Labs Build Life Savers: The Real Cost of Tech Transfer

When Labs Build Life Savers: The Real Cost of Tech Transfer

When we read about cutting-edge medical technology winning prestigious awards, like the recent recognition of the AI-GUIDE device developed by MIT L…
Can Plastic Waste Actually Fix Our Housing Crisis?

Can Plastic Waste Actually Fix Our Housing Crisis?

We live in a world overflowing with plastic and starved for affordable housing. On one side of the ledger, mountains of single-use packaging choke l…
Why Generative AI Needs Strict Boundaries to Be Safe

Why Generative AI Needs Strict Boundaries to Be Safe

When artificial intelligence steps out of the chat window and into the physical world, the rules of the game change dramatically. Recent research fr…
Why Measuring Society Accurately Is So Hard

Why Measuring Society Accurately Is So Hard

Human society is messy, unpredictable, and wonderfully chaotic. Trying to capture civic phenomena, voting habits, or cultural shifts with mathematic…
Can Plastic Waste Actually Fix Our Housing Crisis?

Can Plastic Waste Actually Fix Our Housing Crisis?

We live in a world overflowing with plastic and starved for affordable housing. On one side of the ledger, mountains of single-use packaging choke l…
Why Generative AI Needs Strict Boundaries to Be Safe

Why Generative AI Needs Strict Boundaries to Be Safe

When artificial intelligence steps out of the chat window and into the physical world, the rules of the game change dramatically. Recent research fr…
Why Measuring Society Accurately Is So Hard

Why Measuring Society Accurately Is So Hard

Human society is messy, unpredictable, and wonderfully chaotic. Trying to capture civic phenomena, voting habits, or cultural shifts with mathematic…
The Chip Beneath the Hype: What 8 Years of AI Hardware Reveals

The Chip Beneath the Hype: What 8 Years of AI Hardware Reveals

Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center have quietly tracked every major AI accelerator on the market since 2018 through t…
Why AI Is Making the Humanities More Valuable Than Ever

Why AI Is Making the Humanities More Valuable Than Ever

A senior lecturer at MIT recently made a comment that stuck with me. Artificial intelligence, she said, is good for business — the business of human…
AI's Power Problem: Can Smarter Code Fix Its Own Footprint?

AI's Power Problem: Can Smarter Code Fix Its Own Footprint?

A recent piece from MIT Technology highlighted the work of MIT professor Christina Delimitrou, who is using machine learning to squeeze more efficie…
The University After AI: Why Banning ChatGPT Misses the Point

The University After AI: Why Banning ChatGPT Misses the Point

A new essay from MIT's Sasha Rakhlin, director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, tries to answer a question every university is qui…
Who Actually Said That? AI Is Breaking Civic Trust

Who Actually Said That? AI Is Breaking Civic Trust

A recent essay by MIT professor Deb Roy in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists raised a deceptively simple question: when someone — or something —…