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Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a Professor at MIT, a Stanford University Fellow, and one of the most cited computational scientists in the world, dives into the misunderstood issues and opportunities around artificial intelligence, including alignment, human centricity, how different
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Frank Drake originally proposed the Drake Equation to estimate the number of radio-communicating extra-terrestrial civilisations in our galaxy, thus establishing the formal framework for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The Long L takes the discussion of the
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"Sad to say, a rule-based AI constitution of sorts is a pipe dream. It can’t work."
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Isaac Asimov’s “Handbook of Robotics” imagined simple rules for machine morality. But reality is a maze of contradictions, biases, and blind spots.
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"Wait...That's what deconstruction is all about?" Deconstruction @mitpress Essential Knowledge Series. https://t.co/hg6LSlfYPA
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Very excited to announce my next book now being written. Published by @mitpress, the title: Texas Fever Frontier: How Deadly Epidemics Shaped the Lone Star State and Will Determine America’s Destiny I hope it will be a big & epic book bc everything we do in Texas is big
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1/7 It's book publication day! "Atomic Backfires: When Nuclear Policies Fail" is out now with major booksellers from @mitpress in @BelferCenter's Studies in International Security. Contents and discount codes described in this thread. @ManagingtheAtom
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Great to see #BecomingMartian on the Spring preview list of science books by @PublishersWkly! https://t.co/155GgIk50y
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Space exploration, debates over AI, and stories of wildlife resilience headline this season’s science titles.
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"It Turns Out" was named an Apple "New and Notable" podcast this week! And we've got a new ep today w/ AI expert @GaryMarcus, who worries that we've spent 3 years building a booming stock market based mostly on AI. Has Sam Altman sold us a fantasy? We talk about it.
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The MIT Press and Open Mind Partner with Lyrasis to Support Diamond Open Access Publishing Through the Open Access Community Investment Program https://t.co/enRsYfsZZ2
#scholcomm #oa #OACIP #libraries @mitpress @LYRASIS
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I’m excited to announce that my new book, “What Is Intelligence?” (@mitpress & @antikythera_xyz), is now available as an audiobook, narrated by me! https://t.co/Y7qZT0FyEl
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Very pleased to share that THE WEAPONIZATION OF EXPERTISE by @mitpress authors Jacob Hale Russell and Dennis Patterson has been named one of the best books of 2025 by The @NewYorker magazine! https://t.co/eqbeIsWqN0
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Experts are not infallible. Treating them as such has done us all a grave disservice and, as makes painfully clear, given rise to the very populism that all-knowing experts and their elite coterie...
As 2025 comes to an end, our editors and critics have selected a dozen essential reads in nonfiction and a dozen, too, in fiction and poetry. See the full list: https://t.co/qBlot4HEVq
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Electricity prices are soaring while utilities rake in billions in profit. Here's three ideas to bring bills down: 1) Make power cheap in the middle of the day 2) Stop utility profiteering 3) Keep climate impacts off bills My latest in @TheAtlantic. https://t.co/i1HgdYWEES
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And two other ideas for lowering electricity costs
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❤️ Congratulations, Gregory! Find "Wired for Words" at the @mitpbookstore or your favorite retailer:
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The neural architecture of language has been a hotly debated topic in neurology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy since the early 1800s. I...
When I was a post doc at MIT, I used to walk over to the @mitpress bookstore to browse, wishing that someday I would have a book of my own published there. 33 years later...
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Lin Yutang's MingKwai typewriter is perhaps the most well-known — and most poorly understood — Chinese typewriter in history.
Packed house at yesterday's debut of the MingKwai Chinese Typewriter, invented c. 1947, then thought lost for over 60 years.
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If you define life by its function—rather than what it’s made of—where does “function” come from? Grateful for the chance to explore this million dollar question with Julien Crockett in @LAReviewofBooks, and to share more about the artificial life experiments from my Pi team.
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Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck in the Past? https://t.co/jjQVULuYQa
#ape #darwin #Evolution #human #monkey #naturalselection via @mitpress
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We may have ditched the monkey-to-man meme, but the myth of humans as nature’s “pinnacle of evolution” persists in subtler ways.
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A huge thank you to @NeilShubin for this very generous endorsement of Becoming Martian! Coming Feb 2026 from @mitpress and available now for pre-order!
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Partisanship is poisoning our societal immune system. In a new op-ed for @scientificamer , I discuss how we can fix what’s broken and lay the groundwork for faster, more effective public health systems. https://t.co/O3xYgTBsc0
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States and universities must step up to preserve data, and Congress must act to preserve our nation’s health
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The advent of AI might just be the latest stage of a biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually interdependent entities over evolutionary time. Thank you @Nature for publishing my perspective on this: https://t.co/GYmiKmQapi
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