ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
Fast Company

The head of the world’s coolest innovation lab wants to focus on . . . public policy

Dava Newman, the new head of MIT’s Media Lab, wants the lab to take on bigger problems and reach out into the community. If Willy Wonka had microchips, his factory would have been the MIT Media Lab.
EdSurge

MIT Media Lab Funding Scandal Could Have Far-Reaching Impacts

As the MIT Media Lab continues a reckoning over its ties to Jeffrey Epstein, tech and innovation leaders at other campuses say the scandal will likely have ripple effects across higher education. The ...
ProPublica

MIT Media Lab Kept Regulators in the Dark, Dumped Chemicals in Excess of Legal Limit

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story was published in collaboration with WBUR in Boston ...
CNET

MIT Media Lab, in wake of scandal, seeks restart with new director

Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where he's worked since 2000. A born browser of dictionaries, he honed his language skills as a US Army linguist (Polish and German) before diving into ...
The New York Times

MIT Media Lab

A Pritzker Prize winner, he designed notable projects in his native Japan and in the U.S., including 4 World Trade Center and the M.I.T. Media Lab’s new home. By Fred A. Bernstein The artist Ekene ...