Alex “Sandy” Pentland is a pioneer in harnessing network science to understand and change real-world human behaviors. The director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, and creator and ...

On a sweltering summer afternoon almost a decade ago, Meenu Tewari was visiting a weaving company in Surat in western India. Tewari, an urban planner, frequently makes such visits to understand how ...

A large part of what we’re doing with large language models involves looking at human behavior. That might get lost in some conversations about AI, but it’s really central to a lot of the work that’s ...