MIT philosopher Brian Hedden co-authored research arguing that the use of a single hiring algorithm by multiple firms, known as algorithmic monoculture, is less problematic for job seekers than past research has shown, and may even be a good thing.

Mariano Salcedo SB ’25, SM ’26, an alumnus of MIT’s undergraduate artificial intelligence and decision making program and music technology and computation graduate program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds. “I want users to feel movement and explore sounds and their impact more fully,” he says.

MIT anthropologist and program head Chris Walley developed a project for people in Southeast Chicago to tell their histories — an approach any community can adopt. “People tend to experience history in their day-to-day lives not through books written by experts, but by telling stories around family objects and photos,” Walley says.

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive. “My trajectory across disciplines was just a result of me chasing down the problems I felt were most pressing or inspiring at the time,” she says.