MIT RAISE: Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education

Hal Abelson Recognized for Lifetime Achievement Hal Abelson’s work promotes knowledge of all forms as a public good, the impact of his work touches most forms of knowledge worldwide. Hal’s work has focused on...

Congratulations to MIT RAISE co-director Hal Abelson, receiving Open Education's board award!

"Abelson’s impact is not only foundational—it is enduring. His work continues to inspire new generations of open education advocates, technologists and policymakers. awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2025/...

What past education technology failures can teach us about the future of AI in schools It can take years to collect evidence that shows effective uses of new technologies in schools. Unfortunately, early guesses sometimes go seriously wrong.

"New education technologies are only as powerful as the communities that guide their use. Opening a new browser tab is easy; creating the conditions for good learning is hard." theconversation.com/what-past-ed...

Ethicists flirt with AI to review human research Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines

“IRBs are not supposed to be algorithmic,” Fernandez Lynch cautions. “There’s something I think inherently valuable and worth preserving about a group of people carefully deliberating together about whether research participants are being ethically protected.”

www.science.org/content/arti...

90% Of College Students Use AI: Higher Ed Needs AI Fluency Support Now According to more than 1,100 U.S. students across two-year colleges, four-year universities, and graduate programs, 90% of students have used AI academically.

MIT RAISE in @forbes.com: "Without governance, students receive mixed messages and faculty are left improvising in isolation." www.forbes.com/sites/avival...

At the MIT FutureMakers finale, we were honored to watch a demo from Floyd County School of Innovation students, with their incredible work using App Inventor as part of repurposing abandoned Kentucky coal mines to grow mushrooms for food and pharmaceuticals.

appinventor.mit.edu/blogs/jeffFr...

AI for K-12 Learning Event overview Join educators, technologists, designers, and researchers for a collaborative hackathon focused on developing practical AI solutions that address real-world challenges in K-12 education...

Coming up on the 29th at MIT, "join educators, technologists, designers, and researchers for a collaborative hackathon focused on developing practical AI solutions that address real-world challenges in K-12 education."

sites.google.com/view/hackath...

AI easier to deal with if accepted as a ‘wicked problem’ No correct solution to the challenge of assessment in the age of generative AI, and academics must be given ‘permission’ to tailor their approaches, Australian researchers say

The threat to assessment from generative artificial intelligence is a “wicked problem” with no “silver bullets”, and universities should approach it “not as a problem to be solved but as a condition to be navigated”, reports John Ross
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From our friends at the MIT Edgerton Center, applications are now open for "Master Making in the Classroom", helping educators use their school makerspaces to support academic learning in any subject area.

k12maker.mit.edu/master-makin...

RAISE director Cynthia Breazeal named by TIME one of the "100 Most Influential People in AI" | MIT RAISE

Congratulations to our director Cynthia Breazeal!

"In her experience, kids often intuitively understand this. 'When we’re working with actual kids in these actual contexts, you get some hope,' she says.”

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Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91

@histoftech.bsky.social Am obit of interest that you might have seen already. Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...

What steps would you take to ensure AI-aided writing maintains the diversity of ideas and human spark that makes writing wonderful in the first place?

Professor Cynthia Breazeal and graduate student Daniella DiPaola receive SERC seed grants – MIT Media Lab These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.

Congrats to our Director Cynthia Breazeal and her doctoral student Daniella DiPaola!

A good reminder that with the focus on the aggregate environmental impact of genAI, we shouldn't overlook the that of other computationally-intensive services, like video streaming.

Not to mention combining them, such as generating a viral video...

Staking our wide open patch of Bluesky!