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The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

August 6, 2026

Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.

Following the questions where they lead

July 20, 2026

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.

Dimitri Bertsekas, Prolific Author in Optimization, Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, Dies at 83.

July 20, 2026

Bertsekas’s research spanned, and had a major influence upon, several fields, including optimization, control, large-scale computation, reinforcement learning, and artificial intelligence.

Helping AI models to meet the real world

July 15, 2026

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

New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content

July 13, 2026

Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities, without prompting them for illegal outputs.

In game theory, generalists sometimes win out over specialists

June 18, 2026

Researchers show that for certain kinds of games, an overlooked class of algorithms performs much better than expected.

When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three”

June 17, 2026

MIT researchers provide a major upgrade to the nearly century-old idea of random utility models.

Games people — and machines — play: Untangling strategic reasoning to advance AI

May 7, 2026

Assistant Professor Gabriele Farina mines the foundations of decision-making in complex multi-agent scenarios.

Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models

May 1, 2026

A new debiasing technique called WRING avoids creating or amplifying biases that can occur with existing debiasing approaches.

A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

March 23, 2026

This new metric for measuring uncertainty could flag hallucinations and help users know whether to trust an AI model.