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This is the MIT institutional homepage, not a dedicated AI safety resource; it may have been added as a general reference to MIT's research activities, but offers limited direct value for AI safety topics compared to specific MIT lab or publication pages.

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Summary

The MIT homepage showcases current research highlights and news from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, featuring recent work in neuroscience, AI, medical diagnostics, and photonics. It serves as a portal to MIT's broad research enterprise rather than a focused AI safety resource.

Key Points

  • Features recent MIT research spotlights including AI applications in healthcare (heart failure prediction, pneumonia detection)
  • Highlights work on efficient AI models by researchers like Song Han, focusing on shrinking and speeding up large AI models
  • Covers photonic chip advances relevant to quantum computing and optical communications
  • Serves as a navigation hub for MIT's academic community including students, faculty, and researchers

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[![neurons in the mediodorsal thalamus, labeled pink](https://www.mit.edu/files/images/202603/MIT-Schizophrenia-Beliefs-SL.jpg)](http://news.mit.edu/2026/brain-circuit-incorporates-new-information-may-be-linked-schizophrenia-0318)

## Spotlight: Mar 19, 2026

A brain circuit needed to incorporate new information may be linked to schizophrenia, [neuroscientists](https://mcgovern.mit.edu/profile/guoping-feng/) have found. They say impairments of this circuit may help to explain why some people with schizophrenia lose touch with reality.

#### Mar 19, 2026

[Full story](http://news.mit.edu/2026/brain-circuit-incorporates-new-information-may-be-linked-schizophrenia-0318)

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## Research and Education that Matter

[![Researcher looks at tiny device with microscope](https://www.mit.edu/files/images/202603/MIT-PlasmoSniff-home.jpg)](http://news.mit.edu/2026/new-sensor-sniffs-out-pneumonia-patients-breath-0316)

### [Pneumonia detector](http://news.mit.edu/2026/new-sensor-sniffs-out-pneumonia-patients-breath-0316)

A new sensor can detect compounds in a person’s breath to quickly diagnose pneumonia and other lung conditions. Rather than sit for a chest X-ray or wait hours for a lab result, a patient may one day take a breath test and get a diagnosis within minutes.

[![PhD students Tiffany Yau and Teya Bergamaschi with computers](https://www.mit.edu/files/images/202603/PULSE-HF-1dw.jpg)](http://news.mit.edu/2026/can-ai-help-predict-which-heart-failure-patients-will-worsen-0312)

### [Forecasting heart failure](http://news.mit.edu/2026/can-ai-help-predict-which-heart-failure-patients-will-worsen-0312)

Can AI help patients and their doctors manage heart failure? Researchers developed a deep-learning model to forecast a patient’s heart failure prognosis up to a year in advance.

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