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Cracked security cameras are connected by lines like a large language model. A house is in the middle.

Spotlight: Sep 19, 2024

LLMs make inconsistent decisions about calling the police when analyzing home surveillance videos, a study shows. The “move-fast, break-things” practice of widely deploying generative AI models “deserves much more thought since it could be quite harmful,” Ashia Wilson says.

Sep 19, 2024

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Sally Kornbluth on stage. A sign on the podium says "Climate Project at MIT."
CLIMATE ACTION

Leaders of MIT’s Climate Project joined community members at a forum, kicking off the Institute’s new effort to accelerate and scale up climate change solutions. “The Climate Project is a whole-of-MIT mobilization,” President Sally Kornbluth said.
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ALUMNI IN ACTION

For Afarin Bellisario ScD ’80, SM ’90, an engineering background and work with MIT inspired her to write about how tech and modernization changes people and nations. “The technology we develop has to do something good for people,” she says.
2 students smile and hold up popsicles in a crowd
#THISISMIT

Via @mit_cheme on Instagram: “Classes are back in full swing again, great seeing everyone back #AroundMIT for WildPops”
So Young Lee writing on the glass face of a cabinet in the lab.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Chemistry PhD student So Young Lee has long been a choreographer, baker, and painter. In the lab, she applies her creativity to designing molecules, including one that could aid in the fight against tuberculosis.
William Pedersen behind a white model of a city
ALUMNI IN ACTION

For William Pedersen MArch ’64, design is always a dialogue. “I wanted my buildings to evolve as a response to the context within which they were placed,” says Pedersen, a founding partner and the design leader at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates.
2 photos of Mark Johnson. On left, a recent photo shows Mark holding a photo. On right is the photo of Mark as an MIT student on the track.
#THISISMIT

Via MIT_alumni on X: “‘MIT remains an integral part of my life, even as @MIT and I both change.’ ~Mark Johnston ’84, SM ’93, #MITALC awardee”