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The University After AI: Why Banning ChatGPT Misses the Point

A new essay from MIT's Sasha Rakhlin, director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center, tries to answer a question every university is quietly panicking about: what should academia actually do about AI? Building on an MIT report on AI and education published this summer, his piece focuses on graduate research and education in fields like math, statistics, and engineering. It's a timely prompt, but I think the conversation needs to go further than "how do we adapt?" to &…
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Who Actually Said That? AI Is Breaking Civic Trust

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Biotech Is the New Defense Frontier: Why Labs Beat Missiles

On September 3, MIT Lincoln Laboratory hosted the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) as part of its ongoing national roa…

AI Builds Its Own Brain: Why That Should Unsettle Us

A new paper from MIT published on October 9 in PNAS made a quiet but provocative claim: if we want to know whether an artificial neural network is a…

The Two-Week Wall: Why Predicting Weeks Ahead Changes Everything

When Texas froze over in February 2021, the tragedy wasn't just about cold weather. At least 246 people died as power, water, and food systems c…

Fake Blood Is the Military's Holy Grail for a Reason

In February 2007, a US Army medevac helicopter with the call sign Morphine 1-2 was shot down near Karmah, Iraq, while flying a daylight rescue missi…

Why the Open-Source AI Debate Is Far From Over

Recently, industry discussions have reignited around a familiar friction point in technology development: the stark divide between closed-door innov…

The Dangerous Illusion of Locking Down Open Source AI

When a major safety report drops warning that a freely downloadable model poses severe cyberattack risks, the tech world sits up and takes notice. T…

When Failed Startups Find a Second Life in AI Training

When a fledgling company quietly closes its doors, the traditional narrative usually involves a lot of heartbreak, some leftover pizza boxes, and a …

Why a Lunar City Is Closer and Harder Than We Think

A recent edition of MIT Technology Review’s newsletter caught my attention by highlighting the competing ambitions of the US and China to plant perm…

Why Language Models Won't Save Humanoid Robots Just Yet

We live in an era where technological hype moves faster than actual engineering. Every few weeks, a new demonstration drops online showing a bipedal…

Shelf-Stable Future: Why We Want Blood and Batteries on Demand

The latest edition of MIT Technology Review's The Download flagged two seemingly unrelated quests: the US military's $73 million effort to …