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 ...

Humans, it turns out, are better than current AI models at describing and interpreting social interactions in a moving scene—skills necessary for self-driving cars, assistive robots, and other ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. It’s hard to walk a block or finish a morning coffee without encountering some system that attempts to tell you what to ...

A.I.’s failure to read human social cues could pose serious risks for the future of self-driving vehicles. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images While A.I. excels at solving complex ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...