MIT News AI

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.

MIT News AI
Jul 14

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

By David Chandler | Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
OpenAI Blog
Feb 19, 2019

AI safety needs social scientists

We’ve written a paper arguing that long-term AI safety research needs social scientists to ensure AI alignment algorithms succeed when actual humans are involved. Properly aligning advanced AI systems with human values requires resolving many uncertainties related to the psychology of human rationality, emotion, and biases.