Fluid Interfaces
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Building upon insights from psychology and neuroscience, the Fluid Interfaces group creates systems and interfaces for cognitive enhancement. @medialab @MIT
Check this post by our PhD student Caitlin Morris, where she argues that social tinkering cultivates the curiosity and resilience that individualized Al tutoring too often overlooks. Caitlin is a @cosmos_inst grant recipient in their second cohort. open.substack.com/pub/cosmosinst…
Loved today’s Guest Opinion Essay published in @nytopinion , written by @meghanor after her thought experiment with ChatGPT, also mentioning our paper «Your Brain on ChatGPT».
Read the entire, wonderful essay here: nytimes.com/2025/07/18/opi…
Watch: @AHA_MediaLab hosted guest speaker Albrecht Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science at @LMU_Muenchen, for a seminar earlier this month. The conversation was moderated by Prof. Pattie Maes (@fluidinterfaces). media.mit.edu/events/aha-spe…
Media Lab Prof. Pattie Maes, head of the @fluidinterfaces research group, talks to @EBU_HQ about the need to develop AI tools in ways that help users become more creative and aware, and contribute to their social and mental wellbeing. ebu.ch/news/2025/04/q…
Learn more about AfterNow event here.
Douglas Rushkoff wants us to use AI to ask better questions f-st.co/1p46NqS
In @NewYorker ,@chaykak looks at recent research from @Cornell @SantaClaraUniv , including a study led by our research scientist @nataliyakosmyna @medialab @mitsap @MIT , examining the cognitive consequences of overreliance on large language models like ChatGPT.
Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” @chaykak writes. nyer.cm/bPbXzba
In @techreview, @odonnell_jm reports on a preprint from researchers at @Stanford + @UCBerkeley finding that generative AI models have largely stopped providing disclaimers about medical advice. Media Lab researcher @patpat_mit, whose own research has shown that people often place…
A chilling yet spot on description of LLMs from @meghanor’s guest essay in the @nytimes, “ The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind” — gifted in the comments. “I came to feel that large language models like ChatGPT are intellectual Soylent Green — the fictional foodstuff…
Our alum and incoming assistant professor @medialab @patpat_mit is visiting @ChulalongkornU in-person and giving a lecture at the Faculty of Psychology. "Cyborg Psychology: Designing Human-Al Interactions for Promoting Human July 22, 2025 Register: forms.office.com/r/FndtkTUdKN
Dr. Pat Pataranutaporn (@patpat_mit), a recent graduate of @fluidinterfaces, is a pioneering researcher in human–AI interaction, cyborg psychology, and bio-digital interfaces. He has been appointed as an Assistant Professor of Media Arts + Sciences, and will also continue to…
Congratulations!!!
I'm excited to share that I have been appointed as a new MIT faculty starting this September as an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab. Very excited! Official Announcement: media.mit.edu/posts/patpat-p… @medialab @FluidInterfaces @AHA_MediaLab @MIT
Social tinkering: Why collaborative curiosity beats vibe-coding New from Caitlin Morris, Cosmos grant winner @MIT @FluidInterfaces
Awesome post: cosmosinstitute.substack.com/p/social-tinke… Gets at the distinction between tinkering and vibe-coding. It's about how active the stance is. Are you pair programming with the LLM or outsourcing your thinking to it?
What happens when AI doesn’t just learn from us — but starts echoing us back to ourselves? @PattieMaes calls it the “bubble of one” — the algorithmic shrinking of our worldview. Watch her conversation with @kaliouby exploring how we can break the loop: youtu.be/5LBbsVK3uP8?si…