The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) was founded in 1950 in response to 'a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war,' as outlined in the 1949 Lewis Committee Report. The report's findings emphasized MIT's role and responsibility in the new nuclear age, which called for doubling down on genuine 'integration' of scientific and technical topics with humanistic scholarship and teaching. Only that way, the committee wrote, could MIT tackle 'the most difficult and complicated problems confronting our generation.' As SHASS marks its 75th anniversary, Dean Agustin Rayo answers questions about why the need for developing students with broad minds and human understanding is as urgent as ever, given pressing challenges in the midst of a new technological revolution. A: Artificial intelligence isn't just changing the way students learn ' it's transforming every aspect of society. The labor market is experiencing a dramatic shift, upending...
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