Event

Silvia Saccardo: Behavioral Economics, Ethics and Self-Deception

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-493 DescriptionUnethical behavior such as corruption or dishonesty is widespread and comes with efficiency and f…

Monday
December 14, 2015
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Behavioral Economics

The standard model of of human behavior is a model of rational actors. This model is widely accepted by individuals, policy makers, and bus…

Project

Arbitrary Coherence in Behavioral Economics

Economic theories of valuation generally assume that prices of commodities and assets are derived from underlying "fundamental" values. For…

Article

Sohan Dsouza discusses ethics and self-driving vehicles

Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.

Publication

Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable?

Kory Westlund, J., & Breazeal, C. (2015). Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable? Workshop on The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction, held in conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

Article

The ethics and tech of dream seeding

In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.

Publication

Ethics, Equity, & Justice in Human-Robot Interaction: A Review and Future Directions

Ostrowski, A.K., Walker, R., Das., M., Yang, M., Breazeal, C., Park, H.W., & Verma, A., (2022). Ethics, equity, & justice in human-robot interaction: A review and future directions. In Proceedings of 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication.

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Cardiac Arrest: Evaluating the Role of Biosignals in Gameplay Strategies and Players' Physiological Synchrony in Social Deception

Social deduction or deception games are games in which a player or team of players actively deceives other players who are trying to discov…

Group

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

The development, application, and capabilities of AI-based systems are evolving rapidly, leaving largely unanswered a broad range of import…

Event

Ethics, Empathy and Extended Intelligence

Invited talk at AAAI/ AIES

Saturday
February 3, 2018
4:00pm — 5:00pm ET
Series

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

June 19, 2018
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Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics

Peter Krafft, Michael Macy, Sandy Pentland. (2017). Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics. The 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).

Article

Elegant chemistry, a humane view of robots, and refugee economics: Books in brief

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks, including Kate Darling's latest book.

Person

Neska Elhaouij

Former Postdoctoral Associate

Group

Ethics

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The mission of the Media Lab’s …

Course

Affective Computing and Ethics

Affective Computing was birthed at the MIT Media Lab and is now an internationally recognized field that includes an IEEE journal (Transact…

Publication

Predicting students' happiness from physiology phone mobility and behavioral data

Jaques, N., Taylor, S., Azaria, A., Ghandeharioun, A., Sano, A., and Picard, R. "Predicting students' happiness from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data" In Proc. Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Xi'an, China, September 2015.

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Ethics and Empathy Learning

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.This initiative is designi…

Project

Gene Editing and Biomedical Ethics

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The initiative, working wi…

Project

AI Ethics and Governance

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.This project will support …

Publication

Machine Learning of Sleep and Wake Behaviors to Classify Self-Reported Evening Mood

Taylor S, Jaques N, Sano A, Azaria A, Ghandeharioun A, Picard R. "Machine Learning of Sleep and Wake Behaviors to Classify Self-Reported Evening Mood," Sleep2016, June 2016

Publication

Physiological and behavioral profiling for nociceptive pain estimation using personalized multitask learning

Lopez-Martinez, D., Rudovic, O., Picard, R. "Physiological and behavioral profiling for nociceptive pain estimation using personalized multitask learning," NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Healthcare, Long Beach, CA, December 2017.

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Identifying objective physiological markers and modifiable behaviors for self-reported stress and mental health status using wearable sensor

Sano, A., Taylor, S., McHill, A. W., Phillips, A. J. K., Barger, L. K., Klerman, E., and Picard, R., "Identifying objective physiological markers and modifiable behaviors for self-reported stress and mental health status using wearable sensors and Mobile Phones: Observational Study," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2018;20(6):e210

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Galea: A physiological sensing system for behavioral research in Virtual Environments

Bernal, G., Hidalgo, N., Russomanno, C., & Maes, P. (2022, March). Galea: A physiological sensing system for behavioral research in Virtual Environments. In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) (pp. 66-76). IEEE.

Project

Predicting students' wellbeing from physiology, phone, mobility, and behavioral data

The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obtai…

Article

‘Living’ space as the newest frontier: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw to focus on self-assembling space architecture and habitats in CLS

Ariel Ekblaw spoke at the Chautauqua Institution about her novel space architecture ideas and a call for more dialogue on space ethics.

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Eliciting a Sense of Self when Integrating with Computers

While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…

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Friendship Reciprocity and Behavioral Change

When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we found…

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Creative AI: A curriculum around creativity, generative AI, and ethics

As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…

Article

"Psychological roadblocks" for self-driving cars

Iyad Rahwan on the trust gap between people and autonomous vehicles.

Event

Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio on "State of AI Ethics" Panel

Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, Catherine D'Ignazio discuss "Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook" at State of AI Ethics Panel.

Wednesday
March 24, 2021
12:00pm — 1:30pm ET
Event

Thesis Defense: Reusing A Robot's Behavioral Mechanisms to Model and Manipulate Human Mental States

LocationWiesner Room, 2nd Floor, MIT Media Lab DescriptionFrom an early age, humans are able to use intentions and beliefs to understand th…

Thursday
April 22, 2010
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Theme | Justice + Ethics

We create and employ ethical design frameworks to work towards equitable and inclusive HRI research and technologies.

Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at Harvard Business School Course on the Economics of Space

Danielle Wood will speak at Harvard Business School's first-ever course on the business of space.

Thursday
January 21, 2021
1:15pm ET
Article

Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal

Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles

Publication

Reusing a Robot's Behavioral Mechanisms to Model and Manipulate Human Mental States

Gray, J. "Reusing a Robot's Behavioral Mechanisms to Model and Manipulate Human Mental States"

Event

Spaces in Space: Optimizing behavioral health and cognitive performance in confined environments

SPACE² WORKSHOPVisit event page here!The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) and the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration …

Wednesday — Thursday
February 6, 2019 —
February 7, 2019
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Lessons Learned: An ethics roadmap for real-time predictions

AI Ethics in practice lecture with Soyean Kim, Tech Safety BC

Monday
October 15, 2018
4:00pm — 5:00pm ET
Project

Behavioral Indications of Depression Severity

In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depressi…

Publication

Intelligent Mobile Wearable and Ambient Technologies for Behavioral Health Care

Luxton, D.D., June D. J., Akane Sano, Timothy Bickmore. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420248-1.00006-4

Publication

Optogenetically Induced Behavioral and Functional Network Changes in Primates

Gerits, A., Farivar, R., Rosen, B. R., Wald, L. L., Boyden, E. S., Vanduffel, W. (2012) Optogenetically Induced Behavioral and Functional Network Changes in Primates, Current Biology 22(18):1722-6.

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Conductive Hydrogels for Bioenergy Harvesting and Self-Powered Application

Zhang, C.*, Nayeem, M. O. G.*, Wang, Z.*, Pu, X., Dagdeviren, C.†, Wang, Z.L.†, Zhang, X.†, Liu, R.†, “Conductive hydrogels for bioenergy harvesting and self-powered application”, Progress in Materials Science, 138, 101156, 2023.

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AMA, an Application for Annotation, Monitoring, and Analysis of Behavioral Activity

Hernandez, J., Sano, A., Goodwin, M. S., Picard, R. W. "AMA, an application for Annotation, Monitoring, and Analysis of behavioral activity"; in the Extended Abstract of IMFAR 2012, Toronto, Canada, May 17-19, 2012.

Publication

Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education

Ali, S., Williams, R., Payne B., Park H., Breazeal C. (2019) Constructionism, Ethics, and Creativity: Developing Primary and Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education. Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificiation Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’19). Palo Alto, CA, USA. Proceedings of IJCAI 2019.

Event

Participatory Self-Portrait: Art, environment, and community

A collaborative exhibit investigating art, environment, and community in our past and present.

Project

AI Audit: AI Ethics Literacy

An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …

Publication

Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being

Nosakhare, E., Picard, R. W. Probabilistic Latent Variable Modeling for Assessing Behavioral Influences on Well-Being," ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’19), August 4–8, 2019, Anchorage, AK, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330738

Article

Inside the R&D of AI ethics

Jonathan Zittrain discusses the Assembly program at the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center.

Person

Sohan Dsouza

Former Research Assistant

Publication

What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design?

Das, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A.K., Yang, M., & Verma, A. (2022). What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design? Proceedings of the ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE2022

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How to Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum

Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2020). How to Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum. . Presented in the International Workshop on Education in Artificial Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI ’20).

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What do we mean when we write about ethics, equity, and justice in engineering design?

Das, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A.K., Yang, M.C., & Verma, A. 2022. What do we mean when we write about ethics, equity, and justice in engineering design? ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.

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AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…

Publication

Using Generative AI to cultivate positive emotions and mindsets for self-development and learning

Joanne Leong. 2023. Using Generative AI to Cultivate Positive Emotions and Mindsets for Self-Development and Learning. XRDS 29, 3 (Spring 2023), 52–56. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589659

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Valinor: Mathematical models to understand and predict self-harm

We are developing statistical tools for understanding, modeling, and predicting self-harm by using advanced probabilistic graphical models …

Article

Berkman Klein Center's Ethics and Governance of AI Resources

FAQ, videos, and additional information about the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, which will support interdisci…

Video

Ethics and Governance of AI | Class 6: April 10, 2018

June 20, 2018
Article

Teaching kids the ethics of artificial intelligence

Cristina Quinn shares what she learned in a visit to the AI + Ethics summer camp run by Personal Robots group student Blakeley Payne.