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Thomas Malone @twmalone

@MITSloan Professor of Information Technology and Organizational Studies; Founding Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; author of #Superminds

Joined January 2009
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Would you like to know where AI can be used? Our new working paper provides a systematic framework for answering this question using detailed data about 13,275 AI software applications, 20.8 million robotic systems, and about 19,000 work activities. See arxiv.org/abs/2603.20619.

Where can AI be used? Insights from a deep ontology of work activities

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to profoundly reshape how work is executed and organized, but we do not yet have deep frameworks for understanding where AI can be used. Here we provide a...

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The ACM Collective Intelligence conference (CI 2023) will be in Delft, Netherlands, Nov 6 - 9 (bit.ly/3PN3hSc). 4 days, 9 plenary speakers, 25 papers! Even if you can't attend in-person, you can attend all the paper and panel sessions remotely. (Fees go up after Oct 20)

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We're hiring one or more *postdoctoral associates* for a project on how AI can augment (as opposed to replace) humans and how to design collectively intelligent groups, in general. Position can be based at MIT (bit.ly/3YTDU5m) or in Singapore (bit.ly/44w2iuS).
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Here's an article that quotes me about using generative AI to *enhance* rather than *replace* people: inc.com/sarah-lynch-/2-commo….

2 Common Mistakes CEOs Might Be Making With Generative A.I.

Leaders might be focusing too much on cost savings, but not enough on the risks associated with A.I.

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Here's a nice article about crowdsourcing for sustainability that quotes me and mentions our Climate CoLab project: informationweek.com/sustaina…

Ways to Make Sustainability More Viable via Crowdsourcing

Open innovation frameworks are helping organizations develop new ideas and insights for their sustainability efforts.

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Here's a recent podcast with me talking about "AI and Humans Working Together:" whathappensnextin6minutes.co….

AI & Humans Working Together

Speaker: Thomas Malone

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This recent article in Forbes Daily includes an "Expert Interview" with me (about 3/4 of the way down in the article: forbes.com/sites/danielleche….
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See my recent op-ed about how new "learnright" laws could help solve some of the problems with generative AI that copyright law doesn't: news.bloomberglaw.com/enviro…

AI Will Profit From Artists, But New ‘Learnright’ Laws Could Help

MIT’s Thomas Malone writes that a new category of “learnright” laws should be developed to control rights of automated systems to learn from content creators’ materials, balancing the benefits of...

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Seminar on frontiers of collective intelligence research: @richardpmann, @leksy_b, @EugeneVinitsky, @sjmgarnier, @mjwaniek, & @geoffmulgan. An hour of brain expanding content: March 16, 12 ET ucl.zoom.us/j/97640057957. Hosted by Sage/ACM Collective Intelligence journal
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I recently spoke in a panel on "Future of Work in the GenAI Economy" (scroll down here: lnkd.in/eBX6yedK). I suggested a possible new legal framework called "learnright" instead of "copyright"--the right for AI systems to *learn* but not *copy* (see timecode 24:50).

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I am delighted to announce the release of "Superminds at Work." In the video, I provide an overview of Superminds and how they can inform management decisions. Available on Starling Insights: insights.starlingtrust.com/c…

Superminds at Work with Tom Malone | Starling Insights

We are excited to announce the launch of Superminds at Work — a video discussion with MIT professor (and Starling Advisor) Tom Malone. The history of humanity is largely the history of Superminds —...

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The Collective Intelligence 2022 conference has just been announced: ci2022.org. It will be held virtually on October 21-22, and abstracts are due July 31. A great place to learn about many kinds of collective intelligence and talk about your own CI research!
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Postdoc job opportunities at MIT -- Creating highly effective (perhaps "superintelligent") human-computer groups. See bit.ly/3tFn3Uy
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The TalkingFeds podcast (talkingfeds.com) interviewed me about the post-Covid future of work. Here's the audio (free now but will be behind a paywall in a few days): patreon.com/posts/future-of-….

Talking Feds

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I'm happy to share this interview with me in today's Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/technolog…. @supermindsMIT #superminds #futureofwork

MIT expert on work says any boss who thinks employees will return to offices is dreaming

The author of a prescient book on the workplace tells The Post: "If companies make employees who can do their jobs at home go into the office it will be harder for them to hire, and other companies...

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Here’s a very nice article by Ganes Kesari about #superminds, based on an interview with me: forbes.com/sites/ganeskesari….

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Boston Globe (bit.ly/3t6jhl7) says: "For more than a decade, Thomas Malone...has predicted...neighborhood office buildings...houses...converted to co-working spaces, allowing people...to enjoy...a communal coffee machine without having to battle traffic to get to it."

The Future of Work: Craving connection in ‘neighborhood office buildings’

The Future of Work from @GlobeIdeas: The pandemic forced a decade's worth of change into a year. Here's what it will mean for jobs, inequality, and the economy.

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There's still time to submit 3-page extended abstracts to the Collective Intelligence 2021 conference...
ACM Collective Intelligence 2021@acm_ci2021
22 Feb 2021
3 weeks to submission deadline March 15th for extended abstracts to the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference 2021, hosted by @CBScph on June 29-30. acm-ci2021.com #CI2021
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I'm happy to share our new report on "AI and the Future of Work." We predict a future of work where "... the most promising uses of AI will not involve computers replacing people, but rather, people and computers working together—as 'superminds'."
Work of the Future MIT@workofthefuture
17 Dec 2020
New #MIT #workofthefuture research brief by Thomas Malone, Daniela Rus & Robert Laubacher: "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work" ow.ly/tPFl50CO5Un @MITSloan @MIT_CSAIL
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Today, we use tools like Zoom for scheduled meetings. But what about the impromptu conversations that happen in the hallways and around the office coffee machine? We recently announced Minglr, a tool that supports just this kind of online mingling. See cci.mit.edu/minglr/
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