China’s use of AI-driven facial-recognition tools appears to help repress dissent while honing the technology, a new paper reports: “AI innovation entrenches the regime, and the regime’s investment in AI for political control stimulates further frontier innovation.”
Today, many companies and institutions are not just data-driven, but data-intensive. But that doesn’t mean organizations are always using optimal models. MIT Sloan’s Rahul Mazumder is a leading expert in determining efficient algorithms.
Via @mit_spain on Instagram: “Great dinner meeting up with MIT-Spain interns living and working in Madrid!”
U.S. News & World Report features MIT in a roundup of U.S. universities that offer students access to cutting-edge technologies. “‘Maker culture’ permeates the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students work in collaborative settings to innovate and create.”
A new technique uses remote images to gauge the strength of ancient and active rivers beyond Earth. The approach allows geologists to see how intensely rivers once flowed on Mars, and how they currently flow on Titan, which is Saturn’s largest moon.
Over 30 years, quantum computing has moved ever closer to solving problems that stump the most powerful supercomputers. A new qubit foundry gives the wider research community access to Lincoln Laboratory’s expertise in fabricating quantum circuits.
PhD student Will Sussman studies wireless networks while fostering community networks through MIT Hillel. “I think it’s important to demonstrate Jewish culture at a time when antisemitism is on the rise,” he says.