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AI creates great possibilities for expanding human capabilities to make workers more effective, skilled, and valuable, but only if organizations develop and implement the technology intentionally. @MITshapingwork @DAcemogluMIT bit.ly/4kvR1ok

Jerry Lu MF ’24 developed an optical AI system to analyze figure skaters’ jumps and recommend ways to improve. At the 2026 Winter Olympics, he’s working with NBC Sports to help break down judging decisions and help viewers appreciate the technical complexity of winter sports. news.mit.edu/2026/3-questio…

This fall, the MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) held a symposium and celebration on campus, marking TPP’s 50th year as an interdisciplinary effort. news.mit.edu/2025/celebrati…

#AI is often criticized for its growing energy use—but it can also help modernize the power grid. In a 3Q with MIT News, LIDS PI Priya Donti explains how AI can boost grid efficiency, improve resilience to extreme weather, and enable more renewable energy. bit.ly/4pGrwkM

“What we found is how much it matters for a city to be embedded within the global air transportation network,” says Ambra Amico. news.mit.edu/2026/fewer-lay…

To realize the greatest gains from artificial intelligence, we must make the future of work more human, not less. bit.ly/3N3cIiz

Can development aid counter insurgencies? Lessons from Afghanistan Last month on VoxDev, Andrew Beath (@wb_research), Fotini Christia (@MITPoliSci @mitidss) & @renikolopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) discussed the impact of counterinsurgency initiatives: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

The virtual VideoCAD tool, developed by researchers including IDSS faculty Faez Ahmed, could boost designers’ productivity and help train engineers learning computer-aided design. bit.ly/3LVKDta

Can development aid counter insurgencies? Lessons from Afghanistan Last week on VoxDev, Andrew Beath (@wb_research), Fotini Christia (@MITPoliSci @mitidss) & @renikolopov (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) discussed the impact of counterinsurgency initiatives: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

“We’ve shown that with careful selection, you can guarantee optimal solutions with a small dataset, and we provide a method to identify exactly which data you need,” says Asu Ozdaglar. news.mit.edu/2025/bigger-da…

New research from IDSS alum Paolo Bertolotti w/ MIT Profs Fotini Christia and Ali Jadbabaie (@jababi) finds that even carefully targeted drone campaigns generate durable collateral disruption yet to be weighed in public debate or policy decisions doi.org/10.1017/S00071…

The MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) marked its 50th anniversary with a landmark symposium celebrating a half-century of education, research, and impact — while looking ahead to the defining technology policy issues of the future. bit.ly/47yp4pP

TPP students Anthony Valiaveedu and Nat Edmonds are among the co-authors of this first-of-its-kind handbook, which serves to guide the design safety for civilian nuclear ships. bit.ly/470s6UG

Designing for uncertainty. A new framework from LIDS @GioeleZardini, Yujun Huang, and University of Zurich’s Marius Furter helps engineers build complex systems—like drones, vehicles, and aircraft—that remain reliable despite real-world unpredictability: bit.ly/48dsBf9

A team led by @MITIDSS Professor Jessika Trancik identified specific innovations that enabled dramatic cost reductions in solar panels, revealing opportunities to drive down the cost of renewable energy systems, batteries, and many other technologies. news.mit.edu/2025/surprisin…

New MIT research accounts for uncertainty to help engineers design complex systems that are more reliable in the face of real-world unpredictability, like delivery drones that navigate changing environments. news.mit.edu/2025/accountin…

"The golden bullet narrative that is floating around is not going to materialize as we move from clinical trials to clinical applications." The Data Nation podcast explores the data behind psychedelics and mental health in the latest episode, out now! bit.ly/42jlnlX

What can #datascience reveal about the mind on #psychedelics? In this episode of MIT's Data Nation, @MuntherDahleh and @LibertyCapito speak with @NicolasLanglitz and @realJoshSiegel about the role of psychedelics in the future of mental health treatment. bit.ly/42jlnlX

Fueled by friendly competition, students in MechE’s popular course 2.155/156 apply AI theory to real-world engineering design challenges, from bike frames to city grids. The class has “opened the curtains” on machine learning, Ilan Moyer says. news.mit.edu/2025/ai-machin…