"The lump sum group gets a huge amount of money and has to invest it, and this might cause them some stress," Professor Tavneet Suri speculates. In any case, the long-term monthly recipients are happiest of all, and "some of that is because they know it's going to be there for 12 years. It provides mental health benefits in a stability sense."

"We develop emotional relationships with street-level markets like Harvard Square," says associate professor Catherine J. Turco. "We attach to it, we love it, and then it breaks our heart when it changes." In this video, Turco walks us through the Square, explaining why we look to certain places for stability and security, even as they inevitably evolve.

In the Money Reimagined podcast professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland discusses data ownership, data control, crypto, and AI technologies as they reshape the landscape of digital innovation, offering new possibilities and problems concerning security considerations that affect humanity now.

Associate dean Georgia Perakis, who specializes in machine learning and operations research, discusses her work using ML to manage triage in a data-driven way that is also equitable during a workshop titled Analytics for Improved Health Care. Complicating factors is that women tend to have longer wait times but not a longer time to discharge, which could negatively affect health outcomes.

Lecturer Andrey Zarur compares traditional pesticides to "carpet bombing" and says his solution is akin to using "sniper shots to deal with pests on our fields." He says artificial experimentation has a crucial role to play in solving food security challenges. "Agriculture is not a natural process," he argues. "It is as artificial as a battery plant."

Professor Dimitris Bertsimas says: "Multimodal data will increasingly be used across science, engineering, and medicine, and AI will become the predominant methodology for predictions and decision-making across all fields."

Research scientist Neil Thompson says: "The more computation you use, the better you do. There's this incredibly predictive relationship between the amount of computing you use in an AI system and how well you can do."

Senior lecturer Steve Spear, co-author of Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification discusses his new book.

Testifying on the twelfth day of the ongoing antitrust trial between Epic Games and Google, Professor Catherine Tucker said that she failed to see how Google was a monopoly at all, and said that by offering a product that facilitates interactions between developers and app users, Google by definition competes with Apple and others on the market. Tucker said she based her findings on actual Apple documents. "It matters when you see a competitor that's not part of this case actually say we're competing against Google Play."

Lecturer Shira Springer writes: "This year, as interest in women's sports continued to increase rapidly and enthusiastically, organizations sought out and seized opportunities to be part of the movement. In the process, they often made statements. Some of those statements came with impressive dollar amounts attached. Some set new standards and exercised influence by other means. In different ways, they reflected the changing sports landscape and, hopefully, set the stage for more breakthroughs."

Professor Catherine Wolfram and co-authors write: "While individual nations bear the full costs of their climate policies — both economic and political — the benefits accrue to the global community. Without sufficient incentives for cooperative behavior, self-interest leads to insufficient progress in climate protection."

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu and professor Simon Johnson write: "Sam Altman's dismissal and rapid reinstatement as CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, confirms that the future of AI is firmly in the hands of people focused on speed and profits, at the expense of all else. This elite will now impose their vision for technology on the rest of humanity. Most of us will not enjoy the consequences."

Senior lecturer Chintan Vaishnav says: "India Rise Accelerator has given mission-critical support to start-ups solving India's most important shared national challenges, creating sustainable impact through technology-led innovation, cross-border collaboration and ecosystem integration."

Assistant professor Rahul Bhui discusses how understanding situations and perspectives influences decisions by addressing audience concerns and gaining trust through empathy.