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Justin Solomon, associate professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), has been appointed associate dean of engineering education in the MIT School of Engineering, effective July 1.In this new role, Solomon will focus on advancing innovation in engineering education across the school. He will help shape new pedagogical approaches in the context of an AI-enabled world and will explore experiential, hands-on, and other modes of learning. Working closely with academic departments, Solomon will serve as a thought partner in integrating AI into curricula and will help facilitate interdisciplinary and shared teaching opportunities across departments and…

MIT master’s student Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Now in its ninth year, the highly competitive scholarship provides up to three years of financial support for graduate studies at Stanford University. Sunshine Jiang  ’25Sunshine Jiang, from Hangzhou, China, graduated from MIT in 2025 with a bachelor’s degree as a double major in physics and electrical engineering and computer science, along with minors in mathematics and economics. She will receive her master of engineering degree this month and will start her PhD in computer science at Stanford School of Engineering this fall. Jiang researches…

MIT’s Universal Learning is a new initiative from MIT Open Learning designed to prepare learners everywhere to tackle complex global challenges through boundary-crossing thinking. Universal Learning offerings combine subject matter expertise from MIT faculty and experts and Open Learning’s more than 25 years of innovation in online education to deliver a learning experience centered on real-world stories, practical exercises, and the needs of global learners. It is delivered on the MIT Learn platform, leveraging the capabilities of the AskTIM AI assistant to support learners throughout their educational journey. Universal AI, the first offering from Universal Learning, launched to the public today. Future offerings will…

“Artificial intelligence is not just for computer scientists anymore; it’s going to permeate every aspect of our lives and influence every business,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth. The world is reaching an inflection point with artificial intelligence: over half of U.S. adults use generative AI — with 12 percent using it daily at work — and 88 percent of global organizations have integrated AI into at least one core function, up from 78 percent in 2024. AI knowledge is no longer optional for career growth, organizational leadership, and life. Yet, a growing information gap exists between those with the capabilities to leverage AI’s potential…

EU officials have agreed to water down certain aspects of the AI Act, including delaying the implementation of rules covering a number of high-risk applications until December 2027, instead of the originally set deadline of August 2026, according to the latest update of EU lawmakers watering down AI rules.This agreement comes after many companies argued the EU was bogging itself down in unnecessary regulation, leaving the EU behind competitors in the US and Asia.The deal was reached after 9 hours of talks, which is fairly standard for negotiations in Brussels. It still needs to be ratified by EU leaders and…

When we hear about automation and artificial intelligence replacing jobs, it may seem like a tsunami of technology is going to wipe out workers broadly, in the name of greater efficiency. But a study co-authored by an MIT economist shows markedly different dynamics in the U.S. since 1980. Rather than implement automation in pursuit of maximal productivity, firms have often used automation to replace employees who specifically receive a “wage premium,” earning higher salaries than other comparable workers. In practice, that means automation has frequently reduced the earnings of non-college-educated workers who had obtained better salaries than most employees with similar…

Microsoft, Google DeepMind and Elon Musk’s xAI have offered to let the U.S. government access new AI models ahead of their general release, which sets up a new phase in Silicon Valley’s often fractious relationship with the US government’s fear of AI threats, based on the latest report of AI companies offering models to U.S. officials in the name of security review, in the hopes that government analysts can vet frontier AI systems for security threats like cyberattacks and military use before it is exposed for public consumption by developers and users, and, inevitably, those who should have no business…

Gabriele Farina grew up in a small town in a hilly winemaking region of northern Italy. Neither of his parents had college degrees, and although both were convinced they “didn’t understand math,” Farina says, they bought him the technical books he wanted and didn’t discourage him from attending the science-oriented, rather than the classical, high school.By around age 14, Farina had focused on an idea that would prove foundational to his career.“I was fascinated very early by the idea that a machine could make predictions or decisions so much better than humans,” he says. “The fact that human-made mathematics and…

President Donald Trump’s White House is contemplating whether the US government should be allowed to screen the most powerful AI models before they become available to the public, a significant shift from his previously laissez-faire approach to the AI industry.In the most recent story about White House AI model vetting, the debate boils down to whether the government should intervene before frontier systems with coding or cyber capabilities get distributed to the public. That’s a not a subtle change. That is Washington asking whether the arms race to AI has evolved to the stage where ‘ship it and see what…

Now actors and writers are supposed to be human. As the Academy released its rules for the 99th Academy Awards, the organization declared that any movies with “AI generated actors” or “AI written screenplays” would be ineligible for acting or writing prizes (but otherwise still eligible).So what do you do, exactly, in a time when we can no longer be sure if AI is a tool or a threat? Hollywood is going to have to make that call soon. The Academy released its latest statement on what’s eligible for an Oscar, including how they’re going to approach AI actors and…