By clicking “Accept All Cookies,” you agree to the storing of cookies on your device to enhance site navigation and analyze site usage.

Skip to main content

Applied AI

Understanding how generative, decentralizing technologies - such as GenAI and blockchain - affect power, scalability and productivity is the focal point for this research group. The group, led by IDE Director Sinan Aral, has expanded its charter beyond its previous focus on Web3 architectures.

Learn more

Working Papers Measuring Social Media Network Effects

Jun 2025

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Seth Benzell | Assistant Professor, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Avinash Collis | Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Christos Nicolaides

Teaching AI to Handle Exceptions: Supervised Fine-Tuning with Human-Aligned Judgment

May 2025

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo

Working Papers Advancing AI Negotiations: New Theory and Evidence from a Large-Scale Autonomous Negotiations Competition

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Michael Caosun | Ph.D. Candidate

Michelle Vaccaro, Jared R. Curhan

Working Papers Complementarity Between Paid and Organic Installs in Mobile App Advertising

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Working Papers Collaborating with AI Agents: Field Experiments on Teamwork, Productivity, and Performance

Mar 2025

Harang Ju | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Research article Understanding the Returns From Integrated Enterprise Systems: The Impacts of Agile and Phased Implementation Strategies

Jun 2024

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Erik Brynjolfsson

Chris Gu

Hongchang Wang

DJ Wu

Research Papers Reducing Interference Bias in Online Marketplace Experiments Using Cluster Randomization

Apr 2024

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

David Holtz | Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Inessa Liskovich

Special Reports 2023 Social Media Summit (SMS@MIT) Event Report

Jun 2023

Sinan Aral | Director, MIT IDE; Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

Access and download the 2023 SMS@MIT Event Report HERE.