As co-faculty director of the Shaping the Future of Work initiative at MIT, Simon Johnson works on the economics and politics of AI development and deployment in the US and globally.

Kate Kellogg studies the implementation of narrow AI—AI systems designed to perform specific tasks—as well as generative AI, among frontline knowledge workers. She’s exploring the barriers to AI implementation and the mechanisms for addressing them.

“We’re looking for innovative ways to combine people and computers by taking advantage of what each does best,” says Tom Malone.

Swati Gupta explores machine learning and optimization to improve the efficiency, quality, and fairness of the decisions models make.