This year’s books from MIT experts deliver insights on a future-ready workforce, game theory, AI, and more — By Meredith Somers, MIT Sloan As the world navigated another year of the pandemic, leaders and managers faced economic and geopolitical turmoil, workers reevaluated their jobs and priorities, and everyone witnessed the environmental toll that rising temperatures took on the planet. Here are seven books from MIT Sloan faculty and…

Latest surveys confirm the stickiness of remote work options — By Irving Wladawsky-Berger The verdict is in: remote work is no longer a remote possibility. Like it or not, in the past two years it has proven to be a resilient and a permanent option for most businesses. An updated survey bears this out. …

New MIT study on identity cues shows it’s not what is said, but who says it that matters — By Paula Klein Should the identity of social media users be checked and verified? Will that help stem misinformation online? As the policy conversation on online identification, verification, and blue checks on Twitter heats up — in some cases to curb harmful speech and in some case for profits —…

Platforms, governments, courts and users all need to be held accountable for harmful online lies — and that’s not easy — By Paula Klein Why is it so tough to correct online misinformation? At a recent MIT IDE seminar, IDE visiting scholar Marshall Van Alstyne, also Professor of Information Economics and Department Chair at the Boston University, unpacked the challenges and offered ways to approach solutions. It’s not a one-and-done elixir.

Automation will hold a key to the future in countries like Ireland that face an aging workforce and demographic shifts — By Jonathan Ruane Re-posted from The Currency, with permission 49 million. That is the peak number of humans that will ever live in the 27 countries of the EU, as projected by the European Commission. And it will occur in just four years from now. From then on, the population…

Social media companies are exploring crowdsourcing to fact-check misinformation — Will it work? — By DAVID RAND, re-posted from FT.com The growth in misleading rhetoric from US congressional candidates on topics such as election integrity has put renewed pressure on social media platforms ahead of November’s vote. And the perception that tech companies are doing little to fight misinformation raises questions about their democratic…

Reporting regulations to make breaches known are already in place in the EU and in 36 U.S. states — By Irving Wladawsky-Berger “Cybersecurity has reached a tipping point,” wrote MIT professor Stuart Madnick in a recent Harvard Business Review article, New Cybersecurity Regulations Are Coming. Here’s How to Prepare. …

What do social-media users really want? It’s complicated. Algorithms monitor our online behavior, then show us content based on inferred values. But what if that’s only half the equation? — By Peter Krass You’re at a party when the host offers you a snack choice: potato chips or green salad? Sure, the salad is healthier, and if you choose it, you’ll feel proud of yourself. But those chips look awfully good — even if later you’ll feel unhappy.

It’s still tough for many organizations to get beyond pilots to create scalable, revenue-generating AI capabilities — By Paula Klein As more organizations race to embrace AI and make serious financial and resource investments, why are some seeing more value than others? That’s one of the overarching questions Accenture’s research group set out to answer in a large-scale study conducted over the last year. Seeking to determine…