Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, you may soon need to have what are known as “personhood credentials” to verify that you’re a person and not a bot, not unlike two-factor authentication. MIT PhD student Nouran Soliman explains.

In a rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, there’s a term you’ve probably never heard of but soon will: “personhood credentials.” They aim to verify you as a real human online, not a bot, as a way to combat issues like fraud and misinformation. But it raises other questions about oversight. AI is advancing at a breakneck pace, getting smarter...

The president of MIT says the encampment on campus needs to be shut down here after hundreds of students at Northeastern and Emerson were arrested for similar demonstrations.

At MIT, around 30 students set up more than a dozen tents on the Kresge lawn, putting up signs expressing their support for the Palestinian people and calling on the university to cut their research ties with Israel.

Researchers have learned about a potential new way to prevent Lyme, and the key is right in our sweat.