Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to 'articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI.' The response to the call far exceeded expectations with 75 proposals submitted. Of those, 27 proposals were selected for seed funding. 'The groundswell of interest and the caliber of the ideas overall made clear that a second round was in order,' they said in their email to MIT's research community this fall. This second call for proposals resulted in 53 submissions. Following the second call, the faculty committee from the first round considered the proposals and selected 16 proposals to receive exploratory funding. Co-authored by interdisciplinary teams of faculty and researchers affiliated with all five of the Institute's schools and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, the proposals offer insights and perspectives on the potential impact and applications of...
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