Spring 2024 IDE Lunch Seminar Series

Join us 12-1pm on select Wednesdays this Spring! Virtual registration is open to the public. IDE Stakeholders and MIT Community members have the option to register for select seminars in-person. Access the schedule and registration options below.

May 15, 2024

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

These informal lunch seminars include early results from current MIT research projects and guest presentations from our Digital Economy network. Some seminars are recorded and made available on the IDE YouTube channel HERE. Weekly seminars will be held on select Wednesdays from 12:00-1:00 PM Eastern Time throughout the Spring 2024 semester.

Please continue to check this space for schedule updates. Registration will open approximately 1-week prior to each seminar.

Upcoming Seminars:

February 21 – Madhav Kumar, MIT Sloan “Inclusive Recommendations”
- Recording not available for this talk
March 6 – Hamsa Bastani, UPenn Wharton “Rethinking Fairness for Human-AI Collaboration”
- Access video HERE
March 20 – Marshall Van Alstyne, Boston University “Truth is Warranted: The Role of Self-Certification in Information Markets”
- Access video HERE
April 3 – David Holtz, UC Berkeley Hass “The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance” (with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solene Delecourt, and Rembrand Koning)
- Access video HERE
April 10 – Mina Lee, University of Chicago “Writing with Language Models”
- Access video HERE
April 24 – Tania Babina, Columbia Business School, “Artificial Intelligence and Firms’ Systematic Risk”
- Access video HERE
May 8 – Patrick Connolly, (Accenture), and Renée Richardson Gosline (MIT), “Improving Human + GenAI performance with Beneficial Friction”
- Access video HERE
May 15 – Sendhil Mullainathan (University of Chicago), and Ashesh Rambachan (MIT), “Do LLMs Understand? How Would We Know if They Did? Uses and Misuses of Large Language Models.”
- Register for virtual access HERE
- Register for in-person access HERE