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We’re thrilled to celebrate FutureTech Research Scientist Ana Trisovic on her outstanding accomplishments: The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the major LHC experiments at CERN, Ana is among the recognized contributors via her work on LHCb experiment during her PhD. In addition, Janakan Siva, Ana Trisovic, and Neil Thompson's work "Mapping the Impact of Foundation Models on the UN Sustainable Development Goals" has been accepted to the 2025 IEEE International Conference on eScience Alexander F., Ana Trisovic, and Neil Thompson's poster "LLMs in Citation Intent Classification: Progress, Precision, and Reproducibility Challenges" has been accepted for the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability Please join us in congratulating Ana for her remarkable progress and many contributions. We can’t wait to see what she does next. #ResearchExcellence Links to research in the comments below

Extending our gratitude to Nobel Prize Laureate and Turing Award Winner Dr. Geoffrey Hinton for speaking at the MIT FutureTech Lab Seminar, we were honored to have him speak. Presentation "Living with Alien Beings" linked in comments #AISafety #SuperIntelligence #AIResearch #MITFutureTech

Join our team! MIT FutureTech is seeking an Economics Technical Associate / Predoctoral Research Assistant. This position will be appointed at #MITFutureTech, in the MIT Sloan School of Management's MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and pursue research on topics related to: - AI Progress - The Effect of AI on Science - The Future of Work - The Labor Market Effects of AI and ICT - The Impact of AI on Market Structure - Industry and Firm Performance See link in comments for full details. Please share and tag potential candidates #Hiring #ResearchAssistant #AIEconomics

Missing the MIT FutureTech Conference? Read our reflections on the conference via Substack, and explore recorded presentations now available on Youtube Mixture of Experts’ new Substack highlights a selection of ideas presenters raised and connections we found interesting, loosely organized around three themes: 1) Technical and economic constraints to AI-fueled explosive growth, 2) AI adoption and the labor market, and 3) AI automation in science. YouTube links to the talks are included throughout the post, see comments below for links #AIAutomation #AIResearch #AIAdoption

Dr. Neil Thompson was recently interviewed by Journalist Pallava Bagla for NDTV: Will AI Replace Journalists or Test Their Integrity? "In an era when every newsroom whisper seems to circle back to the same existential questions-will artificial intelligence take our jobs, will it strip meaning from the craft we love, will it turn journalism into a conveyor belt of content rather than a vocation of truth-Professor Neil Thompson, Director of the FutureTech research project at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston, US, offers a perspective that is at once bracing and reassuring." "I think journalism will get hit by AI, and like many other technologies, as we empower people, the people who are good and are going to do things are going to become more capable of doing things" Read the full article linked in comments below #FutureofMedia #AIResearch #MITFutureTech

IvyPlus Exchange Scholar at MIT EECS Department and a Ph.D. Research Fellow at Cornell University, Yuexing Hao, recently presented on the Role of Computing Resources in Publishing Foundation Model Research at one of our lab seminars. A snippet from the Research Overview: We find that increased computing is correlated with individual paper acceptance rates and national funding allocations, but is not correlated with research environment (academic or industrial), domain, or study methodology. Read the preprint and view the research website linked in comments

Another record turnout for MIT FutureTech's conference: How Fast will AI Automation Happen? Special thanks to our stellar attendees and engaging speakers: Anna Li, Beena Ammanath, David Autor, David Deming, Andrew Lohn, Elsa Olivetti, Frank Nagle, Gary Marcus, Karianne Bergen, Kristina McElheran, Patrick Ruch, Shantanu Singh, Tamara Broderick, Yutaro Yamada, Yilun Du We welcome you to continue the conversation with us on Substack - where MIT FutureTech will share ideas, data, and discoveries emerging at the intersection of computing, AI, economics, and policy. Linked in comments below #AI #Automation #Research

Great turnout for day 1 of MIT FutureTech's conference: How Fast will AI Automation Happen? More exciting news: we have officially launched a stubstack: Mixture of Experts! Read our first post at the link in comments below. #AIConference #AIResearch Nice work on the substack - Zachary Brown, Sebastian Sartor, Alexander F., Lucy Yan

FutureTech Director Neil Thompson took the stage at the NDTV World Summit 2025 this past weekend, joining world leaders including Narendra Modi, Rishi Sunak, and Dr.Harini Amarasuriya. How can AI Improve? Watch the recording linked below

We are pleased to announce speakers for session 4 of the upcoming FutureTech Conference on Oct. 23 & 24: Constraints to AI Progress. Welcome Benjamin Jones, Anna Li, Luciano Floridi, and Elsa Olivetti! All sessions: 1 - The Drivers and Consequences of AI Progress 2 - Automation of Science 3 - Automation in the Labor Market and Economy 4 - Constraints to AI Progress Catch this session in the afternoon of October 24th. For the full agenda or to RSVP for this free event, please see the links in the comments