Tag: Alex “Sandy” Pentland

  • The Power of Choice: Rethinking Agency in the Age of AI

    The Power of Choice: Rethinking Agency in the Age of AI

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    Joseph Raczynski
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    EmTechMIT, Cambridge, MA: At the MIT Media Lab, few voices blend data science, social theory, and design for human agency as fluently as Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland. His talk at EmTechMIT, titled “The Power of Choice,” was not about the power of technology itself, but about how to realign it around the individual. Pentland offered…