Faculty and Academic Staff

A new study shows someone’s beliefs about an LLM play a significant role in the model’s performance and are important for how it is deployed.

While women and men self-reported similar vaccination rates, unvaccinated women had less intention to get vaccinated than men.

In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.

Discounting calculations are ubiquitous today — thanks partly to the English clergy who spread them amid turmoil in the 1600s, an MIT scholar shows.

Research surveys show warnings issued by world leaders are taken equally seriously whether issued on social media or through formal statements.

Letting people work with a “navigator” dramatically increases how often they move to higher-opportunity neighborhoods.

Political scientist Ben Ross Schneider’s new book examines why improving public education has been so difficult in Latin America.

Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.

The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.

Employees underestimate salary levels in their own industry, leading them to spend less time exploring the job market.