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MIT News | February 18, 2026

Personalization features can make LLMs more agreeable

The context of long-term conversations can cause an LLM to begin mirroring the user’s viewpoints, possibly reducing accuracy or creating a virtual echo-chamber, says new research from SES student Shomik Jain.

MIT Sloan | February 18, 2026

Pro-worker AI doesn’t just happen. Companies need to act.

Institute Professor, economist, and IDSS faculty member Daron Acemoglu discusses how AI can expand human capabilities and make workers more effective with domain-specific data and reliable, task-aware models.

Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series

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Michael Albergo (Harvard University)
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IDSS Distinguished Seminar Series

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Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series

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Piotr Indyk (MIT)
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