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When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data

When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide.

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Professor Emeritus Chiang Chung Mei, pioneering scholar of ocean wave dynamics and fluid mechanics, dies at 91

Chiang Chung "C.C." Mei, professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), a renowned hydrodynamicist whose work shaped the field’s understanding of ocean waves...

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Featured video: An “MIT story” about an iconic professor

A new short film spotlights the life and career of MIT Institute Professor and School of Engineering Dean Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93.

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Met Warehouse opens as the new home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning

It is a transformation for the ages: The Metropolitan Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is opening as the new home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, after a makeover...

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The mystery of the Chinese tea chest label

When MIT historian Tristan Brown first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed as a relic of the Boston Tea Party, he had no reason to doubt its story.

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Then and now: How MIT Lincoln Laboratory has served as a driving force in national security innovation

On July 26, 1951, the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy signed a charter establishing Project Lincoln, an R&D program managed by MIT to develop the nation's first continent-wide air defense system...

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Reframing leadership as a design problem

When Nicholas de Monchaux became head of the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) in 2020, he stepped into an unusual set of leadership conditions.

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The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis.

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Using reason, again and again

You probably think you are rational. Day to day, you try to “make the best possible use of the information available to you,” as MIT philosopher Brian Hedden PhD ’12 writes in his 2015 book...

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Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill

MIT News - Science, Technology, and Society | Technology and society | Program in STS | History of science | History of MITby Science Policy Initiative22d ago

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research.

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How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

Before the advancement of scientific data storage and collaboration via the cloud, medical investigators seeking health research breakthroughs had to overcome significant obstacles to collaboration...

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Following the questions where they lead

Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity.

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3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

MIT News - Science, Technology, and Society | Technology and society | Program in STS | History of science | History of MITby Media Lab15 Jul 2026

Millions of people are now designing their own personalized artificial intelligence companions, yet most have little idea how those creations will actually behave.

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MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience at MIT and a Nobel laureate, died July 11 at the age of 86.

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How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them.

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Toward a future that preserves benefits of neurotechnology for all

As advanced medical technology gets closer to hitting consumer markets, the need for guardrails on protected usage should increase.

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Building a scholarly community

On a Wednesday afternoon in April, a cohort of scholars from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) gathered in MIT’s Lewis Music Library.

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MIT student teams win top honors in NASA competition

Three teams comprising 35 students across eight different MIT departments and Wellesley College have been at work since fall 2025, designing critical early infrastructure elements that a moon base...

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Scientists find ozone depletion began decades before discovery of ozone hole

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s protective layer of stratospheric ozone.

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David Autor named head of the Department of Economics

David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, has been named head of the Department of Economics, effective July 1.

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