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Enterprises are shipping AI faster than ever but not always with the right guardrails in place. As models move from prototypes to production, the difference between organizations that scale safely and those that stumble often comes down to one thing: a clear, modern AI governance stack that everyone actually follows. Instead of thinking about governance as a binder of policies, leading teams now see it as a layered stack of people, processes, and tools embedded throughout the AI lifecycle. In this insight piece, we’ll break down seven key components every enterprise AI governance program needs to be credible, scalable, and…

The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what if an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) could map the line and pinpoint the location of the fault for a diver to fix?Such underwater human-robot teaming is the focus of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory project funded through an internally administered R&D portfolio on autonomous systems and carried out by the Advanced Undersea Systems and Technology Group. The project seeks to leverage the respective strengths of humans and…

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) was founded in 1950 in response to “a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war,” as outlined in the 1949 Lewis Committee Report. The report’s findings emphasized MIT’s role and responsibility in the new nuclear age, which called for doubling down on genuine “integration” of scientific and technical topics with humanistic scholarship and teaching. Only that way, the committee wrote, could MIT tackle “the most difficult and complicated problems confronting our generation.”As SHASS marks its 75th anniversary, Dean Agustín Rayo answers questions about why the need for developing…

This is not exactly a good time for regulators. The prevailing mood is: Wait, did things just get worse faster than we expected?Right now, regulators in the UK are frantically looking to control what appears to be a frightening jump in the use of AI. A model created by Anthropic was apparently able to discover a large number of software vulnerabilities and this is making people worried.This is not science fiction. It’s real.After being assessed internally, as the model is still in early trials, regulators started wondering if this new AI system could have negative effects for the UK. The…

Something has shifted in the air around AI. It is not a dramatic turn of events, the kind that usually heralds a new dawn, but more akin to a hushed room, where everyone suddenly looks around.This has happened over the last couple of days, as a few high-profile figures have begun to raise a question previously deemed as fantasy. Is AI safe, they are asking, in the event it does not do what they expected?That is the general theme in this report on why some are worried AI may eventually “go rogue.” As the pieces of AI are assembled and…

Something strange is happening in Washington. And no, it is not a new scandal. Government officials are in a frantic rush to deal with the unknown and unpredictable, not the economy, but artificially intelligent computer programs that might be getting a little too good.If you skim through today’s news, like the report on White House efforts to curb dangerous advanced AI, you’ll get a sense of what is going on. The government, bankers, and AI leaders are all in urgent talks over something.Why are they meeting with such urgency? Several current state-of-the-art AI models are not just able to write…

What makes work valuable? Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Philosophy, investigates the role work plays in our lives and its impact on our well-being. Masny sees numerous benefits to work, beyond a paycheck. It’s a space for people to develop excellence at something, make a social contribution, gain social recognition, and create and sustain community. “Consider a future in which we shorten the work week, or one in which we eliminate work altogether,” Masny says. “I don’t believe either of these scenarios would be unambiguously good for everyone.”“Work is both necessary and positively valuable,”…

Training a large artificial intelligence model is expensive, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and computational resources. Traditionally, obtaining a smaller, faster model either requires training a massive one first and then trimming it down, or training a small one from scratch and accepting weaker performance. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, ETH, and Liquid AI have now developed a new method that sidesteps this trade-off entirely, compressing models during training, rather than after.The technique, called CompreSSM, targets a family of AI architectures known…

It sounds like a late-night conversation with friends, what if artificial intelligence becomes so capable that we simply start working less. and what if we tax machines instead of people?It turns out you don’t need to dream big to make this conversation a reality. It’s now on the agenda of OpenAI.OpenAI released a proposal suggesting AI doesn’t merely increase productivity. It also offers a way of restructuring the economy. Shorter working weeks. New forms of public wealth. Taxes on work done by AI.And this might be what is truly disturbing and compelling about this report: If the robots are doing…

MIT.nano has announced that 16 startups became active participants in its START.nano program in 2025, more than doubling the number of new companies from the previous year. Aimed at speeding the transition of hard-tech innovation to market, START.nano supports new ventures through the discounted use of MIT.nano shared facilities and a guided access to the MIT innovation ecosystem. The newly engaged startups are developing solutions for some of the world’s greatest challenges in health, climate, energy, semiconductors, novel materials, and quantum computing.“The unique resources of MIT.nano enable not just the foundational research of academia, but the translation of that research…