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
๐ Join us: https://t.co/e0YEvfzwlf
#AHA#MITMediaLab#AI#HCI
From early algorithms to generative AI to autonomous agents โ each shapes us differently. Under what conditions does media actually support human flourishing?
THIS THURSDAY: AHA Seminar Series featuring Sunny Xun Liu (Stanford Social Media Lab) Link in comments!
๐ AI is now more persuasive than political ads โ 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 | 4โ5pm ET | Join us: https://t.co/e0YEvfzwlf
Save the date ๐ "Raised by AI?" โ MIT Media Lab's AHA Symposium โ 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 โ sign up for the link: https://t.co/8whQqk5Xzi
"I think we may have a crisis on our hands." AHA's Rosalind Picard โ who founded the field of affective computing โ on the unregulated rise of emotionally intelligent AI, in @TIME.
Link: https://t.co/uulmuRx3KD
Congratulations to Dreaming Objects โ winners of HARD MODE! ๐
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. ๐
#HARDMODE
Huge thanks to platinum sponsors @AnthropicAI , @Akamai , and @Qualcomm โ 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. ๐ค
HARD MODE: what a weekend. ๐ง๐ค
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. ๐ฅน
#HARDMODEhackathon#AdvancingHumansWithAI
We analyzed aggregated insights from people's 2025 AI chat histories โ 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.
๐ง Is AI making us better thinkers โ or doing our thinking for us?
TOMORROW: AHA Seminar Series featuring Valdemar Danry on AI & the future of critical thinking.
๐ Thurs, March 5 | 4โ5pm ET | Free & virtual
๐ Zoom link: https://t.co/e0YEvfzwlf
#AI#CriticalThinking#HumanAI
Built a benchmark measuring AI's impact on human wellbeing? Submit it to AHA's Open Benchmark for the Human Impact of AI โ a collaboration between researchers at @MIT, USC, and UC Berkeley. We'll run it on datasets you can't access elsewhere. Link in comments.
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.
AI can now apologize, advise, and persuade โ 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 โ link in comments via @TheAtlantic
Volunteer at HARD MODE โ MIT's hardware ร AI hackathon, March 6โ8. 200 builders. 48 hours. One design brief: hardware for human flourishing.
Wanna join? apply here: https://t.co/fBuJMh8DSc
Proud AHA moment ๐ 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!