According to a recent study by professor Kate Kellogg and co-authors, we might be overestimating our ability to spot check the content that LLMs produce — and underestimating how vulnerable we are to being manipulated by them. "We need to shift from thinking about LLMs as over‑agreeable followers to recognizing them as interaction‑sensitive persuaders that can resist, redirect, and overpower human judgment," said Kellogg in this Q & A interview.

According to research by professor Roberto Rigobon and postdoctoral researcher Isabella Loaiza, the five capabilities where human workers shine and AI faces limitations are empathy, presence, opinion, creativity and hope, which they've captured as the EPOCH Framework. They emphasize the importance of upskilling the workforce on what they call the "fundamental qualities of human nature."

Research by assistant professor Taha Choukhmane and co-authors found that many couples fail to direct their 401(k) contributions toward the spouse with the better employer match. "By not focusing on the highest match, couples may sacrifice an average of $14,000 in retirement wealth over their lifetime, which may climb to as high as $40,000 in additional wealth at retirement for 10% of couples," said Choukhmane.

On this episide of Bloomberg's "The Close," senior lecturer Eric Rosengren discussed how the Iran war will impact the upcoming Fed decision, the 2026 rate outlook, and Judge Boasberg's rejection of subpoenas of the Federal Reserve in the Jerome Powell case.

In this BBC "Business Daily" episode, professor Simon Johnson said: "The issue is, does the Strait of Hormuz open or close? Are tankers carrying oil and liquefied natural gas able to pass through? And the reports are substantially no, it's closed. That's a big hit to countries that import from the Middle East, but also globally, because it's one world market and one world price. It's a particularly big hit for some lower middle income countries."

In a world of higher AI-fuelled economic growth real interest rates should rise. But at 4.9%, yields on 30-year Treasury bonds are little different to where they were at the start of the year. When associate professor Maryam Farboodi and co-author analyzed bond-market moves around big AI model releases, they found that long-term yields fell.

A paper by professor Simon Johnson, Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu, and MIT professor David Autor found that AI has the potential to be a "force multiplier" for human skills and expertise. The co-authors wrote that there is a "systematic underinvestment in pro-worker AI," a term for technology that makes human capabilities more valuable. They said that AI can do the "opposite" of what automation does, and "generate demand for novel human expertise" like electrical installation or fiber-optic cabling.

Christopher Knittel, associate dean for climate and sustainability, warned that a slowdown in economic activity related to high gas prices could push the economy toward a downturn. He said that if the conflict "ends tomorrow, then I think we'll be in fine shape. But if this continues, for a month, two months or even longer, then I think we're certainly above the 50 percent chance of a recession."

"The organizations I've seen moving fastest have built governance systems early enough that they became a permission structure, rather than a constraint," said visiting senior lecturer Paul McDonagh-Smith. "Governance is scaffolding: a structural condition to make ambitious experimentation possible without systemic collapse."

In their recent working paper, IDE research scientist Frank Nagle and co-author found that open-weight models are dramatically underused relative to what their price and performance would justify.

Professor Catherine Wolfram and co-authors wrote: "The European climate strategy, built mainly on unilateral emissions cuts, has become politically fragile and increasingly hard to defend economically. We believe the right response to these pressures is to reorient European climate policy from the focus on its own carbon footprint toward catalyzing international cooperation."

Mike Sanchez (MBA '25) said: "I came to MIT Sloan to pursue my MBA with the intent of founding a company. What I didn't expect was finding my co-founders before I even had a concrete idea. I first teamed up with Kevin Yang (MBA '25) and Kiyo Takanishi (MBA '25) during a pharmaceutical case competition, and we made it into the finals. Through that experience, it became obvious that we worked exceptionally well together. We wanted to build something bigger as a team."

Avner Halperin (Sloan Fellows: MBA '01) and co-authors wrote: "While some critics may voice concerns about balancing traditional profit with nonprofit goals, viewing innovation as an interconnected ecosystem reconciles both."

Senior lecturer Otto Scharmer said: "The most important thing is to be open to something new. Openness is the key skill. Because you don't create something new simply by destroying the old. You have to open up that space to experiment with new ways of working. The key to that, in organizations and societies, is to create small spaces for experimentation."

In a recent paper, senior lecturer Mark Kritzman and co-author showed that the number of stocks in the S&P 500 had fallen to near its lowest point since 1998. But they argued that "the U.S. stock market has not become riskier as it has become more concentrated."

A study by professor Catherine Tucker and co-author found that job advertisements in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) were shown more frequently to men than women, even when advertisers aimed for equal exposure. The advertisement was shown in 191 countries to men and women over the age of 18.