Associate professor Lawrence Schmidt said there are some jobs AI can do. "But, in many instances, it will change what we are doing rather than eliminate the job entirely," he said.

Professor Sinan Aral, principal research scientist Andrew McAfee, MIT IDE research fellow Geoffrey Parker, professor of the practice Zeynep Ton, and MIT IDE digital fellow Marshall Van Alstyne (SM '91, PhD '98), have been listed on the Thinkers50 2025 ranking of Top Management Thinkers. Professor Emilio Castilla is on the Thinkers50 2025 Talent Award Shortlist.

Research scientist Christian Catalini said: "Everything that's been happening the last few weeks is definitely adding a lot of nervousness in the market. Anything that makes investors risk averse of course affects the price of bitcoin."

Professor David Thesmar and co-authors wrote: "Investors and executives have often floated the idea that companies can 'do well by doing good.' In a new experimental paper, we show that this story, sometimes referred to as 'instrumental stakeholderism,' is incomplete: stakeholders care not just about what firms do, but why they do it.​"

Professor Sandy Pentland said: "A lot of the fundamental problem with AI, and particularly with agents, is their lack of the notion that you would call community. Restoring community is what 'Shared Wisdom' is all about, for people, but also, for agents. Making them safe, making them predictable, so that they do what they're supposed to."

"It's better to keep the trees on the land and keep all that carbon out of the atmosphere," said professor John Sterman. "Declaring that biofuels are carbon neutral, as the EU, UK, and others have done, erroneously assumes that forest regrowth happens quickly and fully offsets the emissions from biofuel production and combustion."

MIT IDE research affiliate Irving Wladawsky-Berger said: "CIOs are showing how much of an impact they have in their companies."

A recent paper by professor Roberto Rigobon and postdoctoral associate Isabella Loaiza-Saa found that it is easier for humans to trust other humans than it is to trust technology, and the high-risk industry of money management intensifies the need for human connection. "The financial sector should be really careful about introducing technology that might erode trust," Loaiza-Saa said.

In this podcast episode, Betina Kitzler (Sloan Fellows: MBA '25) unpacked AI's practical applications for institutional investors in 2026.

Professor Catherine Wolfram said: "The price cap was designed to drive a wedge between the global price and what Russia received for its oil, and keep oil on the market. It succeeded with the latter. With the former, it drove a bit of a wedge, but the Trump administration's actions widened that wedge."