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MIT News — Artificial Intelligence · Oct 24, 2026
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During the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ 75th Anniversary Symposium, President Sally Kornbluth said “MIT has never needed your particular insight and guidance more than we do now.”
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Assistant Professor Benjamin Lindquist studies how engineers deliberately injected randomness into early AI, giving rise to deep-learning models that sometimes hallucinate.
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“X-Hinges” helps design and 3D print items like lamps and gloves with an interactive twist: automatically embedded sensors that perceive and adaptively respond to human contact.
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A model developed by researchers at MIT and Boston Children's Hospital adjusts scans on the fly to track fetal movement, potentially sparing families repeat hospital visits.
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New research can help AI models understand crystalline materials in 3D and reason about their properties.
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The 18th annual Kendall Square Association Annual Meeting explored how new technologies could be a force for shared prosperity in society.
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MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics finds sustainability commitments are strong, but governance gaps and external disruptions prevent execution.
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A new computational approach reveals how cells communicate to assemble into tissues. This could accelerate stem cell engineering, improve disease models, and inform therapies.
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In a new book, Professor Eric So explores how the technology affects our thinking skills.
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A new machine-learning approach broke records for weather forecasting for an important time frame in emergency planning.
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