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Advancing Humans with AI: A Research Program at MIT Media Lab

MIT Media Lab Katılım Mart 2025
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Congratulations to Dreaming Objects — winners of HARD MODE! 🏆 They imagine a future where AI lives in the things around us. Objects everyone can interact with, have fun with, and grow alongside in real life. They take home a $50K SAFE investment. Watch this space. 🚀 #HARDMODE
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HARD MODE: what a weekend. 🔧🤘 200+ builders. 40+ teams. 48 hours. One mission: prototype the future. The challenge: rethink how AI helps humans connect, learn, reflect, work, play, and thrive. Demo day was something else. 🥹 #HARDMODEhackathon #AdvancingHumansWithAI
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We analyzed aggregated insights from people's 2025 AI chat histories — here's what we're seeing (exploratory findings, small sample): Emotional support themes showed up across nearly all users, regardless of how they used AI.
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Built a benchmark measuring AI's impact on human wellbeing? Submit it to AHA's Open Benchmark for the Human Impact of AI — a collaboration between researchers at @MIT, USC, and UC Berkeley. We'll run it on datasets you can't access elsewhere. Link in comments.
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Most AI benchmarks measure performance. We measure impact on people. New from AHA @MITMediaLab: a framework for benchmarking AI's effect on human flourishing. 80 experts. 40+ institutions. One question: does it help humans thrive? Read the report - Link in comments.
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AI can now apologize, advise, and persuade — fluently, convincingly, at scale. But no one stands behind the words. AHA's Deb Roy on what this means for language, dignity, and the social contract → link in comments via @TheAtlantic
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Volunteer at HARD MODE — MIT's hardware × AI hackathon, March 6–8. 200 builders. 48 hours. One design brief: hardware for human flourishing. Wanna join? apply here: forms.gle/DUDAvunyihmgbS…
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Proud AHA moment 🌍 Our co-director Pat spoke at the UN ECOSOC Chamber for Women and Girls in Science Day on "AI and the Future of Human Flourishing", joined by an all-women MIT delegation. He honored the women who shaped his work: Dr. Pattie Maes, Dr. Sherry Turkle, and his mom!
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How do AI systems actually impact human behavior? And can we create a new paradigm for accountability?Join our AHA Seminar featuring Erika Anderson & Yaoli Mao on Humane AI Evaluation! Thu Feb 19 | 4-5pm ET 🔗 zoom.us/j/91647096870
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We don't need better AI engagement metrics. We need better human flourishing metrics. At the HumanConnections.AI Salon in SF, one thing became clear: measuring clicks ≠ measuring whether AI helps people thrive. Time to build benchmarks that actually matter!
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🚨 New research challenges the hype around human-AI collaboration Are humans + AI actually better together? MIT's Michelle Vaccaro analyzed 106 studies to find out—and the results are surprising 👀 📅 Feb 6 | 4pm ET 🔗 zoom.us/j/91647096870 Don't miss this. #AI #FutureOfWork
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APPLICATIONS OPEN for HARD MODE 🔧 48hrs to build AI hardware that matters. Not apps. Not chatbots. Real devices you can hold and use. March 6-8 @ MIT Media Lab 200 spots. Cash prizes. Premium hardware. Apply: hardmode.media.mit.edu
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🤖💭 Can AI provide emotional support like humans? What changes when we know we're talking to AI? Join @Harvard Prof. Amit Goldenberg THIS FRIDAY exploring LLMs, emotional intelligence & human-AI interaction 📅 Jan 23 | 2pm ET 🔗 zoom.us/j/91647096870
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Recent @nytimes article by Brian X. Chen looks into a series of studies from @WhartonSchoolPR @medialab @UCSF exploring A.l. search tools, chatbots, social media and their association with lower cognitive performance, including our recent paper "Your Brain on ChatGPT"
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Happy New Year from AHA! 🎉 2025 was just the beginning — 20+ publications, real-world policy impact, and a growing community committed to human flourishing. 2026 brings: Our Annual Symposium, expanded collaborations and research. Here's to many AHA moments ahead! ✨
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