MIT AI for Society Seminar Series 2026-27 — "open to all students, faculty, and the public"
📅 Tuesday, 1 September 2026 → Wednesday, 30 June 2027 in 47 days
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MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Cambridge, MA (MIT campus), 
United States
MIT AI for Society Group recurring seminar series, explicitly open to all students, faculty, and the public. Co-sponsored by MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Held in MIT Building 32 (Stata Center) or Building 45. Distinguished scholars exploring AI's impact on society, ethics, governance, human-computer interaction. Recent talks: "Advances in Causal Reasoning with LLMs" (Microsoft Partner Research Manager), "Algorithmic Decisions in the SNAP Benefits Pipeline" (Cornell Tech). Organizers include Eman Alnabati, Hadeel Alnegheimish, Kate Donahue, Shomik Jain, Olawale Salaudeen. Mailing list for announcements.
The MIT AI for Society Seminar Series runs across the 2026–27 academic year on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is explicitly open to all students, faculty and the public. It is co-sponsored by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Who it's for
MIT students and faculty plus the general public — anyone interested in how AI shapes society.
What to expect
A recurring schedule of talks from researchers on AI and society, spanning policy, ethics, governance and the human impact of AI systems. The series is free to attend; individual session dates and speakers are posted on the seminar page through the year.
