LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-493 DescriptionUnethical behavior such as corruption or dishonesty is widespread and comes with efficiency and f…
The standard model of of human behavior is a model of rational actors. This model is widely accepted by individuals, policy makers, and bus…
Economic theories of valuation generally assume that prices of commodities and assets are derived from underlying "fundamental" values. For…
Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.
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.
In Discovery Magazine, Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz and other researchers discuss the possible ethical issues of influencing dreams.
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.
Social deduction or deception games are games in which a player or team of players actively deceives other players who are trying to discov…
The development, application, and capabilities of AI-based systems are evolving rapidly, leaving largely unanswered a broad range of import…
Invited talk at AAAI/ AIES
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).
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the week’s best science picks, including Kate Darling's latest book.
Former Postdoctoral Associate
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The mission of the Media Lab’s …
Affective Computing was birthed at the MIT Media Lab and is now an internationally recognized field that includes an IEEE journal (Transact…
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.
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.This initiative is designi…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The initiative, working wi…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.This project will support …
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
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.
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
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.
The goal of this project is to apply machine learning methods to model the wellbeing of MIT undergraduate students. Extensive data is obtai…
Ariel Ekblaw spoke at the Chautauqua Institution about her novel space architecture ideas and a call for more dialogue on space ethics.
While some Human-Computer Integration (HInt) systems have successfully demonstrated that humans and technology can be physically and functi…
When we analyzed self-reported relationship surveys from several experiments around the world (from human subjects, not hobbits!), we found…
As the presence of artificial intelligence expands significantly in children’s lives of learning and play, it is critical that students lea…
Iyad Rahwan on the trust gap between people and autonomous vehicles.
Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, Catherine D'Ignazio discuss "Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook" at State of AI Ethics Panel.
LocationWiesner Room, 2nd Floor, MIT Media Lab DescriptionFrom an early age, humans are able to use intentions and beliefs to understand th…
We create and employ ethical design frameworks to work towards equitable and inclusive HRI research and technologies.
Danielle Wood will speak at Harvard Business School's first-ever course on the business of space.
Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles
Gray, J. "Reusing a Robot's Behavioral Mechanisms to Model and Manipulate Human Mental States"
SPACE² WORKSHOPVisit event page here!The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) and the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration …
AI Ethics in practice lecture with Soyean Kim, Tech Safety BC
In collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital, we are conducting a clinical trial exploring objective methods for assessing depressi…
Luxton, D.D., June D. J., Akane Sano, Timothy Bickmore. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420248-1.00006-4
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.
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.
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.
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.
A collaborative exhibit investigating art, environment, and community in our past and present.
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
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
Jonathan Zittrain discusses the Assembly program at the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center.
Former Research Assistant
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
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).
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.
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
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
We are developing statistical tools for understanding, modeling, and predicting self-harm by using advanced probabilistic graphical models …
FAQ, videos, and additional information about the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, which will support interdisci…
Cristina Quinn shares what she learned in a visit to the AI + Ethics summer camp run by Personal Robots group student Blakeley Payne.