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Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond
IDSS researchers in the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and health care.
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Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond
Researchers in the cross-disciplinary Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism are building an open data repository to advance research on racial inequity in domains like policing, housing, and healthcare.
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AI could lead to inconsistent outcomes in home surveillance
Research supported by the IDSS Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism finds that large language models make inconsistent decisions about whether to call the police when analyzing surveillance videos.
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Study reveals why AI models that analyze medical images can be biased
Marzyeh Ghassemi, who leads the Healthcare team of the IDSS Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism, examines how models which can predict a patient’s race, gender, and age may use those traits when making medical diagnoses.
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Camfield: a partnership for progress
Graduate student Nolen Scruggs works with a local tenant association to address housing inequality as part of the MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.
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Growing our organ supply
SES student Hammaad Adam’s novel data set ‘ORCHID’ can help increase the supply of organs for transplants, saving lives and improving health equity.
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Inclusive research for social change
The MIT Summer Research Program pairs underrepresented students with opportunities to examine inequity through the IDSS Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism.
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Marzyeh Ghassemi Finds the Right Guiding Star
The ICSR Healthcare lead and EECS professor is glad to have crossed academic paths with computer science and AI faculty Peter Szolovits. The feeling is mutual.
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MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2023-24
Tawanna Dillahunt from the University of Michigan will be jointly hosted by IDSS and Urban Studies and Planning, with research that focuses on equitable and inclusive computing.
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MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI
The 27 finalists include many IDSS faculty and research within the IDSS Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism.
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