A new technique teaches a large language model to perform a safety check on an AI chatbot so it doesn’t give toxic responses. “Our work is an attempt to reduce the human effort to ensure a safer and trustworthy AI future,” Pulkit Agrawal says.

In the latest episode of Curiosity Unbounded, President Sally Kornbluth talks with economist Namrata Kala, who studies the value of employee training, how communities adapt to environmental change, and the return on investments in green technology.

As Netta Engelhardt sees it, secrets never die, even in a black hole. One of her biggest discoveries to date is that information that falls into a black hole isn’t lost forever. She is now tackling other questions about the universe at its most fundamental scales.

The stars and other celestial objects truly aligned on MIT’s campus Monday. After a weekend of rain, the community was treated to clear skies and high temperatures to view the only partial eclipse for the next 20 years.

​​Via @MITAthletics on X: “Highlighted by a fifth-place finish at the NEISA Open Team Race Championship, the MIT sailing team had another strong weekend on the water!”

“All of the dots are connecting so far in my classes, and all the hopes that I have for studying the climate crisis and the solutions to it at MIT are coming true,” says Justin Cole, who began studies at MIT after nine years in the U.S. Air Force.