IDSS Faculty Awarded Seed Grants to Study the Impact & Application of Generative AI

(Photo: Adam Glanzman) Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.” The response to the call far exceeded expectations with 75 proposals submitted. Of those, 27 proposals...

The business value of curated model collections

Model-based practices are now a staple in product design and engineering workflows, models are seldom managed as an enterprise collection, limiting their value, according to Donna Rhodes, a principal research scientist.

Kindness Goes Viral

Steve Hartman of CBS News visits MechE and IDSS Professor Anette ‘Peko’ Hosoi to explore the science behind whether a single act of kindness can change the world.

Simulating discrimination in virtual reality

Researchers designed and developed a virtual reality role-playing game called "On the Plane," which simulates in-group/out-group biases and enables players to engage in perspective-taking.