MIT Sloan School of Management

Prof. Daron Acemoglu speaks with Washington Post reporter Benjamin Guggenheim about his views on advancing AI, and how the technology might impact the labor market over the next decade. “What we saw at the end of ‘25 and the beginning of ‘26 was an acceleration. I think the agentic AI models are certainly much better in terms of a number of tasks, such as coding and other sort of simple cognitive tasks,” says Acemoglu. 

Politico’s Mike Soraghan cites a 2019 study by Prof. Christopher Knittel and researchers on the net benefits of oil fracking. The study found homeowners, profiting about $2,500 annually per household, were five to seven times more likely to benefit from fracking than renters. “Fracking is a perfect example of something where there are net beneficiaries and net losers,” says Knittel. “And, unfortunately, society often doesn’t look out for those net losers.” 

Prof. Alessandro Acquisti speaks with NPR’s Scott Neuman about privacy issues related to surveillance by autonomous vehicle (AV) companies. “There already exist laws that govern duty to report or even duty to protect [for AV companies],” Acquisti says. “The privacy problems arise when and if driverless carrier companies used such laws or ethical obligations as a pretext for blanket, indiscriminate accumulation of identifiable data for unspecified future purposes.” 

Times Higher Education ranks MIT as the number one university for business degrees in their 2026 World University Rankings list, highlighting the Sloan School of Management’s MBA courses, executive training programs, and broad undergraduate management course offerings. “There is an emphasis on innovation across all these topics. Many influential new ideas in business, including the field of system dynamics, were born out of work at the Sloan School.”

CNBC’s Greg Iacurci interviews Prof. Andrew Lo about the potential pitfalls of relying on AI for financial advice. “One of the things about LLMs [Large Language Models] that I find particularly concerning is that no matter what you ask it, it’ll always come back with an answer that sounds authoritative, even if it’s not,” says Lo. “When it comes to very, very specific calculations of your own personal situation, that’s where you have to be very, very careful.”

In a Bloomberg article, reporter Robb Mandelbaum highlights the AI-Driven Enterprise Institute (AIDE), a new venture by senior lecturer Paul Cheek, which delivers an indexed ranking of how 337 S&P 500 companies are deploying AI and how their implementation and strategy compares to their competitors. “Everybody now needs to be bringing AI literacy into their organization,” Cheek says. “I want my students going in with a very adaptable mindset that best prepares them to apply AI.”

For The Hill, Senior Lecturer Robert Pozen and contributor Mark Iwry argue that the U.S. should implement federal legislation for automatic retirement savings plans. “Without burdening small employers, bipartisan auto-IRA legislation would make retirement saving easy for employees without an IRA or retirement plan at work,” write Pozen and Iwry. “Such legislation would extend tax-favored retirement savings to the tens of millions of workers now left behind, fulfilling the stated intent of the recent executive order ‘to ensure that every American worker has access to a simple, portable, low-cost retirement-savings option.’”

The Economist’s “Bartleby Newsletter” spotlights a survey led by Prof. Danielle Li that found American employees were less likely to opt into training AI after learning how their data could be used. "In an experiment, the researchers offered to buy survey data from participants; those who had been shown a video on how data could be used to train AI were less willing to sell,” writes Andrew Palmer. 

Prof. Simon Johnson discusses the impact of AI on jobs in an interview with Financial Times (FT) reporters Delphine Strauss and Sam Fleming for the FT’s “Economists Exchange” series. “We are trying very hard at MIT to find ways to incorporate AI into the curriculum but to push harder on the entrepreneurship angle, the creation of new products and services, the development of critical thinking,” says Johnson.

Prof. Eric So joins CBS News Tech Watch to discuss a new Pew Research Center study that reveals 40% of U.S. adults perceive AI’s future impact to be negative, as well as his upcoming book, The Collision: What AI Does to Us. “The growth of AI is simply overwhelming for so many people in terms of the pace of progress. But also, a reflection of the fact that for so much of human history, human level intelligence was our most scarce resource, our most defensible advantage,” says So. “It was why we were paid the salaries that we are. And now AI is increasingly commoditizing that. It’s being mass produced in a way that really causes us to question what’s going on to make us valuable in the future.”

Writing for Bloomberg, Prof. Simon Johnson and Prof. Elisabeth Reynolds describe how the U.S. can maintain its technological leadership by investing in research focused on critical minerals, semiconductors, biotechnology, quantum computing, drones and advanced manufacturing.  “Invention is important, but technological leadership in the 21st century will go to the country that adopts these new ideas rapidly and applies them in clever ways,” Johnson and Reynolds write. “And that will require the U.S. to build vibrant innovation and industrial ecosystems that adopt and diffuse new technologies, including AI.”

Boston Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray features LymeAlert, a 15-minute home test kit created by alumna Erin Dawicki ‘24, that can detect Lyme disease from up to five ticks at a time. “For the people who find a tick, and it’s positive, we can give them one dose of antibiotic and have a pretty good chance of preventing the disease,” Dawicki explains. 

Prof. Christopher Knittel speaks with New York Times reporter Emmett Lindner about the likelihood that gas prices remain high after the U.S.-Iran framework deal is signed. “When prices are going up, consumers are very adamant about checking the prices of multiple gas stations,” says Knittel. “But when prices start to fall, they do that less, so gas stations can kind of get away with not lowering prices one for one with oil.”

Fast Company reporter Jude Cramer spotlights a new study by MIT researchers that finds individuals who rely on AI to verify facts saw a 15% decline in their ability to detect fake news when unassisted by AI. “AIs that ‘tell’ by providing direct answers are more likely to foster reliance, while those that ‘ask’ via Socratic questioning are better at engaging someone to actually learn how to discern the truth on their own,” says graduate student Valdemar Danry. “But it’s very much a trade-off between speed and effort.”

In a Gizmodo article, reporter Ellyn Lapointe features a new study, co-authored by Prof. Christopher Knittel and Prof. Catherine Wolfram, that reveals American households are spending an additional $400 to $900 per year due to extreme weather conditions. “U.S. households are experiencing the financial effects of climate change in ways that aren’t always obvious,” says Knittel. “These costs show up across different parts of people’s budgets, and over time they can become pretty significant.”