Simulating discrimination in virtual reality
The role-playing game “On the Plane” simulates xenophobia to foster greater understanding and reflection via virtual experiences.
The role-playing game “On the Plane” simulates xenophobia to foster greater understanding and reflection via virtual experiences.
Philosophy PhD student Eliza Wells investigates how our social roles influence our moral lives.
Dan Huttenlocher is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and the inaugural dean at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
MIT’s inaugural Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice conference explores video’s role in the struggle over truth and civil liberties.
Aleksander Madry, Asu Ozdaglar, and Luis Videgaray, co-chairs of the AI Policy Forum, discuss key issues facing the AI policy landscape today.
In MIT’s Experiential Ethics summer course, students grapple with real-world ethical decision making, often while interning in the very fields they’re studying.
Danielle Li takes a close look at scientific practices and organizational decisions — and provides data about improving them.
Chaplain to the Institute and associate dean of the Office of Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life reflects on the office’s priorities and how the community still surprises her.
The faculty members will work together to advance the cross-cutting initiative of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
New research ties inaccuracies in pulse oximeter readings to racial disparities in treatment and outcomes.
The MIT Museum director describes how the museum is reinventing itself for the 21st century.
“Interpretability methods” seek to shed light on how machine-learning models make predictions, but researchers say to proceed with caution.
Methods that make a machine-learning model’s predictions more accurate overall can reduce accuracy for underrepresented subgroups. A new approach can help.
The second AI Policy Forum Symposium convened global stakeholders across sectors to discuss critical policy questions in artificial intelligence.
In annual T.T. and W.F. Chao Distinguished Buddhist Lecture Series, Baker takes up “Environment, Ethics and Embodiment: Buddhist Approaches to Climate Change.”