Are you an AI professional? Is AI changing what your work looks like day to day? We’d love to hear about it. We’re a group of researchers from MIT and Microsoft studying how the work of AI professionals is evolving as AI systems become increasingly capable.

Here's a commencement speech that didn't get booed at when AI was mentioned. begus.substack.com/p/no-paths-j...

No paths, just endless ocean

Commencement Address to the Bowles Hall Class of 2026

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Reading papers published pre-2022 has become a breath of fresh air.

Submit your work on causality and networks today!

Dean Eckles@eckles.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks? We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference. Submit your work by March 10th! causnets.github.io

An article from MIT Sloan features insights from @zbucinca.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social & @dacemoglumit.bsky.social at our launch event, including: 🔎 Defining pro-worker AI 🚫 3 barriers to its implementation 💡 Design & strategy principles needed to build it mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

Pro-worker AI doesn’t just happen. Companies need to act | MIT Sloan

As AI capabilities advance, the window for shaping whether the technology augments or replaces workers is narrowing. Decision makers need to step up, MIT researchers say.

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If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Microsoft senior researcher, Advait Sarkar, recently presented at TED AI Vienna, where he spoke about AI’s role in elevating human thought.

How to stop AI from killing your critical thinking

Chatbots might help you get work done faster — but at what cost? When we outsource our reasoning to artificial intelligence, we reduce ourselves to "middle managers for our own thoughts," says AI and ...

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Aaaaarrrggh

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire. Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

What is "pro-worker AI," and how can we actually achieve it? A panel discussion at the upcoming launch of the Stone Center will feature insights from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, @emollick.bsky.social & @zbucinca.bsky.social. Register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/stone...

Our Responsible AI team at Apple is looking for spring/summer 2026 PhD research interns! Please apply at jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... and email rai-internship@group.apple.com. Do not send extra info (e.g., CV), just drop us a line so we can find your application in the central pool!

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Apply for a Machine Learning / AI Internships job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

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Honored to be part of the panel on Pro-Worker AI at the launch event of MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. Looking forward to it!

MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work@mitshapingwork.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📅 Join us on 11/3 as we officially launch the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work! The half-day event will feature a series of discussions at the intersection of technology, the future of work, and inequality. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/stone...

📅 Join us on 11/3 as we officially launch the Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work! The half-day event will feature a series of discussions at the intersection of technology, the future of work, and inequality. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/stone...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

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We're recruiting a new tenure-track faculty member to MIT Sloan! apply.interfolio.com/170116 We're looking for someone doing research in quantitative marketing, broadly considered. Faculty in our group work on economics of privacy, mathematical psych, networks, and applications of ML & AI.

The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments. "You're exactly right, that's a great point!" "Thank you so much for this insight!" Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.

You might not think that forming a committee where frontline workers can share work-related health & well-being concerns would have all that much effect on a workplace. But it can. That’s what @elkelly.bsky.social @mitiwer.bsky.social & colleagues found in a recent study: tinyurl.com/y4pej88v

The Surprising Potential of Health and Well-Being Committees | MIT Sloan

MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly, who is Co-Director of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER), found in a recent multiyear study in e-commerce warehouses that establishing Health ...

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I really dislike this sentiment re: AI impacts on education: If an assignment can be completed by AI then it is clearly just busy work; educators need to create better assignments. Absolutely not true. Just because AI can do something too doesn't mean that doing it doesn't have pedagogical value.

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS! I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

@zbucinca.bsky.social's new paper shows that people who receive AI decision recommendations with contrastive explanations (pick A instead of B because...) grow their skills. This important because people do not learn when AI provides conventional explanations. iis.seas.harvard.edu/papers/bucin...

#CHI2025 As we rely on AI for decision-making support, how will our independent decision-making skills be affected? Prior work shows people’s decision-making skills often fail to improve or may even erode when they rely on AI for decision-support, even when the AI provides informative explanations.

@kjfeng.me and @rockpang.bsky.social are kicking off the panel on sociotechnical AI governance! #CHI2025

First day at #CHI2025. Live from our workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning.

Excited to present my work at Max Planck soon!

Max Planck Law@maxplancklaw.bsky.social · last yr.

How can AI systems be designed to support human values in decision-making? On 23 May, @zbucinca.bsky.social will present her work on value-aligned human-AI interaction, hosted by the Initiative ‘Max Planck Law | Tech | Society’. law.mpg.de/event/value-aligned-human-ai-interaction/

The First Workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI 2025 (STAIG@CHI’25) is less than a week away! We’re super excited to hold a panel with some amazing speakers to discuss why a sociotechnical approach to AI governance is so important. Learn more + see our full schedule: chi-staig.github.io

It's hard to say this, but science (& research more generally) is just being **stopped** in the US right now. This is just one university, losing nearly a billion dollars in project funding pretty much overnight. That's people's jobs & the research that could save lives. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

So disappointing that Harvard is terminating ongoing faculty searches. You'd think that with their resources they could complete these searches and then pause future searches. Apart from the huge waste of everyone's time, it's devastating for the candidates. My heart goes out to them.

Unfortunately, since there are people crying wolf about all kinds of things, as brilliantly documented by the Pessimists Archive project (@pessimistsarc.bsky.social), the enterprise of alarm-raising defeats its own aims, because it ends up desensitizing people to predictions about risks and harms.

Interested in human-AI interaction? Consider submitting your work to our #CHI2025 workshop on augmenting human agency & reasoning with AI. Join us in Yokohama, Japan! Submission deadline: March 2 www.media.mit.edu/events/CHI-2...

CHI 2025: Human-AI Interaction for Augmented Reasoning – MIT Media Lab

Human-AI Interaction for Augmented ReasoningImproving Human Reflective and Critical Thinking with Artificial IntelligenceApril 26, 2025 | 9:00-17:00 JST | CHI …

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The worst part about submitting papers to FAccT: the strict 14 page-limit. The best part about reviewing papers for FAccT: the strict 14 page-limit.

Consider submitting to our upcoming CHI workshop on augmenting human reasoning with AI!

@chenhaotan.bsky.social · 2y ago

How can we design AI systems that enhance human critical thinking, reasoning, and agency, rather than diminish them? Happy to announce our workshop on "AI Enhanced Reasoning" at #CHI2025 in Yokohama on April 26, 2025. Please join us! aireasoning.media.mit.edu