AI companions can purportedly adopt racial personas, raising questions about how they represent identity and how users interpret these portrayals. We combined an algorithmic audit of race-coded AI personas with interviews with 12 companion users who interacted with a probe. Our audit revealed systematic differences, su...
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In this article, we present TeamCAMS (Cabin Air Management System), a collaborative work environment for simulating human-AI (artificial intelligence) interaction for scientific research. The article outlines how several psychological theories guided the development of this multiple-task simulation. Modelling a process...
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A cell's identity depends on where it sits in tissue: for example, a macrophage behaves differently in a tumor core than at its edge. Spatial transcriptomics has transformed how we study this by recovering that lost coordinate, but it does so by producing data that is simultaneously high-dimensional, multimodal, and un...
Denisse Chac\'on-Ram\'irez, Mark S. Keller, Eric M\"orth et al.· 0 citations
LLM-based social simulations are primarily evaluated for behavioral fit, testing whether agents reproduce the actions or response distributions of the people they are simulating. However, the promise of simulation extends beyond behavioral fit. Simulations can explain human behavior, diagnose barriers, and compare larg...
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Penquiry is presented, an in-situ question-and-answer system that bridges the gap between the fluid, spatial nature of pen-based workflows and the discrete, keyboard-heavy requirements of Large Language Models, providing a new blueprint for pen-based, in-situ AI interaction.
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In a computational notebook, a human can point to a rendered result and ask about "this," while an agent acts through cells, dependencies, and runtime state. When what the human sees and what the agent operates on are disconnected, the human must describe what they mean and trace what the agent did in prose that strips...
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A qualitative user study shows that Treadstone fosters collaboration while preserving human analytical agency, in contrast to the solitary experience of conventional chatbot interaction.
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Conversational agents are increasingly used to guide reflection. A recent randomized trial compared a GPT-4o career reflection agent with the same program in a static journaling survey. Agent participants ended less committed to their career plans and more doubtful. We coded all 17,930 turns from its two studies, check...
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Value Faces, a system that analyzes a person's existing chat histories from their everyday messaging platforms using Schwartz's ten basic human values and produces separate value profiles for their different relationships, finds that the resulting value profiles distinguished participants' national contexts with twice...
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Traditional dialogue systems for social robots require both dialogue strategies and user attribute recognition, each demanding specialized expertise. However, data collection is costly in real-world deployments, and the resulting datasets often include many failure cases. In this study, we aim to automate the acquisiti...
Mental distance, a loss of belief that the work is worthwhile, is the only symptom unrelated to operational problems, and among posts with a single symptom it is accompanied by a stated intention to leave roughly twice as often as any other.
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Recognizing technical errors in movement is a perceptual skill important to motor learning, but it is challenging for beginners in fast, complex sports like fencing to develop it. A coach's attention is scarce, live demonstrations vary from repetition to repetition, and video review is limited to whatever camera angle...
Students in MIT’s Concourse program delve deeply into the human condition, debate challenging questions, and learn to develop judgment about issues that can’t be quantified.
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complexity. The post What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us appeared first on Microsoft Research.
MIT News · Artificial Intelligence· news.mit.eduSep 30, 2026
Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.
Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.
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