#MITSERC Associate Deans Julie Shah and David Kaiser spoke with Communications of the ACM about Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s contribution to the growing awareness around ethics and technology in academia, including the recent release of SERC pedagogical materials on MIT OpenCourseWare. cacm.acm.org/news/260631-co…

Excellent insight from Julie Shah into the future of work, this year's #ICRA2022 theme. Her plenary looks at human-machine partnerships and work of the future. icra2022.org/program/plenar…

“Aftershock” is a moving ode to Black families in a society where too many forces work to tear them apart, our critic writes. nyti.ms/3PmhJiu

Black women are about three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women. Tonya Lewis Lee, whose new documentary focuses on the issue, and Dr. Neel Shah, MD say it’s happening because “the health care system is built on a system of racism.”

#HappyLaborDay! The Puzzle of the Missing Robots: Prof Suzanne Berger + Benjamin Armstrong on computing ethics, for the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Case Studies. The authors recommend policies to support investing in automation and in education + higher wages for workers. bit.ly/WisePolicy

Help advance the cross-cutting initiative on Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing! SERC Scholars are hourly funded positions and open to all MIT undergraduates and graduate students. The deadline to apply is Sept. 20. computing.mit.edu/SERC-Scholars

.MIT Schwarzman College of Computing announces the "MIT Case Studies in Social & Ethical Responsibilities of Computing." The free cases, intended for undergraduate instruction, are also of interest to computing professionals, policy specialists, and general readers. mit-serc.pubpub.org

TODAY at 12pm ET - @RandiZuckerberg on #QuietQuitting and other Workplace trends! - Ken Coleman - Entrepreneur's @HeyFeifer - @KMin on The Muse - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s @Julie_a_Shah 🔊Tune in on #SiriusXM132🔊

The new MIT Museum opens to the public this weekend in its new location in Kendall Square, which is “quite significant because this is the heart of innovation.” wgbh.org/news/local-new…

The new MIT Museum, a “purpose-built exhibition and gathering space in the heart of Kendall Square ... seeks to demystify some of the school’s opaque inner workings. bostonglobe.com/2022/09/29/art…

Neat work combining ideas from formal methods, stable control policies, and imitation learning!

Though trial-and-error reward design is unsanctioned, we all know this method of designing reward functions is common. I’m excited to announce our AAAI paper on “The Perils of Trial-and-Error Reward Design”. This paper explores the consequences of trial-and-error reward design.

“We fear that the most popular and fashionable strain of A.I. — machine learning — will degrade our science and debase our ethics,” write Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull. nyti.ms/3SXp9eK

Companies must design technology that makes it easier for line employees to identify what tasks should be automated, and choose the right metrics for measuring success. hbr.org/2023/03/a-smar…

Thank you!

Excited to see our work featured on the front page of MIT News! news.mit.edu