Advancing Humans with AI is a research program at MIT Media Lab dedicated to ensuring AI serves human flourishing. We research + build AI for people.
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The gap between what people say they value and what they actually share online is where algorithmic amplification lives.
BONUS SEMINAR THIS FRIDAY: Ziv Epstein (postdoc, MIT Schwarzman), hosted by Prof. Karrie Karahalios.
Link: zoom.us/j/91647096870
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What do you teach a student about AI when no checklist covers what they'll actually run into?
THIS THURSDAY: AHA Seminar with Daniella DiPaola (postdoc, MIT Media Lab) on virtue ethics as an approach to AI literacy.
Link: zoom.us/j/91647096874
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Mainstream moderation systems routinely misread Black cultural expression as toxic. What happens when a community writes its own rules instead?
THIS THURSDAY: AHA Seminar series featuring Rishi Balakrishnan (founding engineer, Blacksky Algorithms)
Link: zoom.us/j/91647096870
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What's your real relationship with @claudeai ? Our AHA team collaborated with @AnthropicAI on Reflect, Claude's new beta feature that shows your AI habits and helps you stay aligned with your personal goals. Check your Claude settings (desktop) to explore your own patterns!
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As AIs become part of everyday life, the pressure to give them rights will mount. But this might help bring about the most disastrous consequences for everyone on Earth and all their descendants bit.ly/4qqIfLd
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At the Artist and the Machine Summit in New York, I sat down with Taryn Southern to talk about a question at the heart of our work at the MIT: How do we build AI that supports human flourishing ?
Watch full video: piped.video/watch?v=ca7GfHl2…
@AHA_MediaLab @medialab
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Whether AI helps or harms us is a matter of design. At #IUI2026, AHA Director @PattieMaes called for AI that serves human flourishing: interfaces that enhance our potential and strengthen our agency. Because there's no point in advancing AI if humanity doesn't advance too.
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We optimize AI decision support for accuracy and speed. But what if those aren't the right goals?
THIS THURSDAY: Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard) on expanding the success criteria for AI-powered decision support
🔗 Join us: zoom.us/j/91647096870
#AHA #MITMediaLab #AI #HCI
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🌐 AI is now more persuasive than political ads — for controversial sociopolitical questions. So what does that mean for our shared reality?
THIS THURSDAY: AHA Seminar Series with Thomas Costello on AI & the future of belief. April 2 | 4–5pm ET | Join us: zoom.us/j/91647096870
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Save the date 📅 "Raised by AI?" — MIT Media Lab's AHA Symposium — April 28, 2026.
For the first time, a generation is growing up with AI in their classrooms, homes, and pockets. How do we ensure they thrive?
Streaming live for all → sign up for the link: eepurl.com/jvfw8o
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Full agenda: media.mit.edu/events/aha-sym…
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"I think we may have a crisis on our hands." AHA's Rosalind Picard — who founded the field of affective computing — on the unregulated rise of emotionally intelligent AI, in @TIME.
Link: time.com/7379564/ai-emotiona…
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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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Huge thanks to platinum sponsors @AnthropicAI , @Akamai , and @Qualcomm — and to @MarcRaibert from @BostonDynamics for bringing Spot and showing us where intelligent hardware is headed.
This is what advancing humans with AI looks like. 🤖
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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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🧠 Is AI making us better thinkers — or doing our thinking for us?
TOMORROW: AHA Seminar Series featuring Valdemar Danry on AI & the future of critical thinking.
📅 Thurs, March 5 | 4–5pm ET | Free & virtual
🔗 Zoom link: zoom.us/j/91647096870
#AI #CriticalThinking #HumanAI
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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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