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Balance AI innovation and risk with ‘minimum viable governance’
As organizations scale generative AI, traditional governance models prove to be too rigid or too loose. Minimum viable governance calibrates oversight to risk, enabling responsible innovation.
The surprising power of warmth in AI negotiations
In MIT’s international AI Negotiation Competition, “warmer” agents achieved better outcomes in negotiations with other AI agents.
Seeing real value from AI depends on being able to verify its outputs
A new paper explores how seeing economic value from artificial intelligence hinges on closing the gap between what AI can do and how humans can verify its outputs.
‘AI gravity’ is pulling you toward dependency. Here’s how to push back
AI systems hold the promise of competitive advantage, but they can usher in cognitive decline among workers, says MIT Sloan School of Management’s Eric So. Learn how to protect cognitive capital.
Heeding the pope’s call to ensure AI protects human dignity
Following Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI, MIT Sloan professor emeritus Thomas A. Kochan argues that firms should partner with workers to ensure AI augments human skills and knowledge.
11 MIT climate tech startups to know
What does the next wave of climate innovation look like? At the 2026 ClimateCAP MBA Summit, MIT-connected startups presented solutions across energy, materials, and supply chains.
MIT Sloan’s 2026 summer book collection
Here are six titles connected to the MIT Sloan School of Management covering topics such as economic strategy, entrepreneurship, talent management, and cultural evolution in the age of AI.
What senior leaders want to know about AI
Leaders are turning to MIT Sloan Executive Education to learn more about AI, including managing humans amid technological change and rethinking their relationships with IT departments.
Building a case for catalytic climate finance
Many climate technologies fail not because of their effectiveness but because they falter in the “missing middle” of financing. The MIT Catalytic Climate Finance Project aims to bridge that gap.
What leaders still get wrong about AI
Organizations are struggling to succeed with AI. Research from the MIT Center for Information Systems Research shows common mistakes and how to overcome them.