MIT News AI

Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning

An expert in behavioral science and transportation, Zhao combines these studies with AI and public policy to address some of the most urgent challenges facing cities.

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
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Autonomous discovery of traffic laws with AI traffic scientists

arXiv:2607. 01639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal traffic laws describe recurrent patterns in congestion, mobility and driving behavior across cities, providing a scientific basis for transportation planning, management and control.

By Xingyuan Dai, Yue Liu, Xiaoyan Gong, Qinghai Miao, Junyou Shang, Yutong Wang, Chao Guo, Yonglin Tian, Yizhang Chai, Chao Xiang, Yisheng Lv, Fei-Yue Wang
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.