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Today is World Design Day, and we are thrilled to celebrate 40 years of one of our beloved journals, Design Issues, in 2024. To mark this occasion, the journal has made 10 of its top articles free to access throughout the year on topics including biomimicry, typography, and more: https://bit.ly/3Wii7Fc

"There’s no concrete evidence to demonstrate that technology is progressing toward general human-level capabilities. Reports of the human mind's looming obsolescence have been greatly exaggerated." Eric Siegel, the author of "The AI Playbook" writes for Forbes: https://bit.ly/4aAf4wn

Indie bookstores reflect the heart and soul of a community and serve as a forum for culture and learning that offer us—parents and children alike—a place to grow. Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day, one of our favorite holidays here at the MIT Press. We hope you'll join us in supporting the independent bookstores that make our communities thrive. For our Boston/Cambridge friends, The MIT Press Bookstore will be open from 12 - 4 pm tomorrow. #IndieBookstoreDay #BookstoreAdventures

"For long stretches of conversation, generative AI chatbots may be said to have passed Turing’s test. But now, the programs of artificial intimacy press a new case: Their developers want us to think that not only do they understand us, but that they care. In this sense, they aspire to pass a Turing test for empathy." Generative AI’s impacts are so consequential, and the field is moving fast. This is why Massachusetts Institute of Technology has partnered with our program, MIT Open Publishing Services (MITops), to publish early impact papers that articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI and its effects on society. "Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?" examines how chatbot programs built on generative AI affect our understanding of human intimacy, agency, and empathy. Read the full paper here: https://bit.ly/3U1T3AO

To celebrate the publication of "Devotion," Metrograph NYC will host a series of events beginning on Saturday, April 27th. Enjoy a retrospective of Garrett Bradley's work, including several little-screened early shorts and her revelatory, Academy Award-nominated film "Time"—which made her the first Black woman to win Best Director in Sundance’s U.S. documentary category. "Devotion," co-published with Lisson Gallery, is an extensively illustrated new book-length study of Bradley's cinema and installation art. Link for details and registration: https://lnkd.in/g4yfgMD5

Generative AI’s impacts are so consequential, and the field is moving fast. This is why Massachusetts Institute of Technology has partnered with our program, MIT Open Publishing Services (MITops), to publish early impact papers that articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative AI and its effects on society. In "Generative AI and K-12 Education: An MIT Perspective," the authors provide a glimpse of what’s happening in schools right now, contextualize experimentation with generative AI, explore key concerns around the implementation in schools, and provide a roadmap for adapting to generative AI. Read the full paper here: https://bit.ly/43Nn2zR

To celebrate Earth Day, we're pleased to share with you a reading list from our environmental sciences editor, Beth Clevenger: https://bit.ly/4b3M9Ro

"The ubiquity of AI-generated text will continue to diminish our ability to trust digital content, including published research, unless and until AI companies are required to disclose the provenance and verifiability of the content on which their large language models are trained and the reasoning algorithms employed." A new article in the Democratizing Data special issue of Harvard Data Science Review, co-authored by MITP Director and Publisher Amy Brand and Christine Borgman, examines the future of open data in scholarly publishing https://lnkd.in/ggFzkxaT

We're honored to have six books selected as Axiom Business Book Award medalists! 🥇 Workforce Ecosystems: Reaching Strategic Goals with People, Partners, and Technologies: https://bit.ly/3KN83xG 🥇 Inside the Competitor’s Mindset: How to Predict Their Next Move and Position Yourself for Success: https://bit.ly/40XkjBB 🥈 The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It): https://bit.ly/3Tj1K8d 🥈 Data Is Everybody’s Business: The Fundamentals of Data Monetization: https://bit.ly/3ICvM1W 🥈 The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future: https://bit.ly/4cd5UHn 🥉 Building a New Leadership Ladder: Transforming Male-Dominated Organizations to Support Women on the Rise: https://bit.ly/3SqVLNM Congratulations to our authors!