Recent Press
USA Today, What AI got right. Lessons for the rest of the business world , August 2025.
CIO, Humanizing AI: Empowering people, not replacing them , August 2025.
Forbes, MIT Researchers Reveal AI’s Good And Bad Impact On Jobs And Skills , Mar 2025.
MIT Sloan School of Management, When humans and AI work best together—and when each is better alone , Feb 2025.
New York Observer, OpenAI o3 vs. Google Gemini 2.0: Which Model is Closer to AGI? Jan 2025.
Charter, How to get the most out of combining humans and AI , July 2024
Poets and Quants for Executives, The AI Boom In Executive Education: What You Can Study Right Now At The World’s Top B-Schools , March 10, 2024.
MIT Sloan School of Management, A generative AI tool to inspire creative workers , February 14, 2024
Mind and Iron, Paging Professor Prophet (Interview with CCI Director Thomas W. Malone), September 7, 2023
Inc., 2 Common Mistakes CEOs Might Be Making With Generative A.I., August 14, 2023
Information Week, Ways to Make Sustainability More Viable via Crowdsourcing, August 9, 2023
Forbes, Most billionaires don´t think employees will stay fully remote, Forbes survey shows , June 11, 2022
The Washington Post, MIT expert on work says any boss who thinks employees will return to offices is dreaming, October 26, 2021
MIT Sloan School of Management, The Collective Intelligence of Remote Teams , October 21, 2021
Forbes, Collective Intelligence Is About To Disrupt Your Strategy: Are You Ready?, April 28, 2021
Boston Globe, Craving connection in ‘neighborhood office buildings’ , April, 2021
SEI, Q&A: How collective intelligence can contribute to the SDGs , March 9, 2021
Axios, Workers need help to maximize new machine colleagues . December 19, 2020
Thomas W. Malone, Daniela Rus, & Robert Laubacher, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work , MIT Work of the Future RB17-2020, December 17, 2020
HR People + Strategy, Creating Superminds of Human-Computing Resources . Fall 2020
Fast Company, 3 ways gender ‘brain diversity’ can make Joe Biden and Kamala Harris better leaders . December 1, 2020
MarketWatch, 4 questions to ask yourself about living to 100 – because there’s a chance you will . November 30, 2020
Diginomica, Ad hoc interactions in the age of virtual work – an unsolved problem . November 18, 2020
Harvard Business Review, Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts . October 28, 2020
Fast Company, Zoom call can be too formal. These alternatives encourage casual chatting . October 6, 2020
Rediff.com, What WFH is doing to office ‘time-pass’ . September 24, 2020
CMS Wire, The Force Shaping the Digital Workplace . September 3, 2020
MIT Technology Review, Remote workers want to re-create those watercooler moments, virtually . August 17, 2020
Quartz, Water cooler moments don’t have to disappear in the virtual workplace . August 12, 2020
Techstination, Minglr from MIT researchers to allow better video conference personal interactions , Online interview with Thomas Malone. August 11, 2020 (Reposted segment on Techstination , September 3, 2020)
The Boston Globe, App developed at MIT, Northeastern looks to connect strangers via video chat . August 10, 2020
Beebom, MIT’s New Video-Conferencing Platform is All About “Impromptu Conversations” . August 9, 2020
BlogDady Business News, Minglr chat device goals to deliver ‘watercooler’ discuss again to distant work . August 7, 2020
RemoteWorkerTech, Minglr chat tool aims to bring ‘watercooler’ talk back to remote work . August 7, 2020
News8Plus, Open-source software program overcomes the restrictions of videoconferences by supporting impromptu conversations . August 4, 2020
AiThority, MIT Sloan Creates “Minglr” – An Open Source Skype And Zoom Video Competitor . August 4, 2020
MIT Sloan School of Management, Introducing Minglr: New open source software developed at MIT Sloan helps overcome the limitations of videoconferences by supporting impromptu conversations . August 4, 2020
Hit Infrastructure, New Online Collaboration Platforms Aims to Solve COVID-19 Problems . July 23, 2020
Energy Central, Collective Intelligence & The Energy Trading Floor Of The New Decade . June 10, 2020
Home Health Care News, In-Home Care Workers Primed for New Roles as ‘Amazonization’ of Health Care Continues . June 7, 2020
Devex, The future of health and medicine in low- and middle-income countries . May 27, 2020
The Hill, Why we need a ‘Digital WPA’ similar to the Depression-era Works Progress Administration . May 4, 2020
AI Trends, Bootstrap your AI Education: Here Are Some Options . December 12, 2019
Express Pharma, Co-creating a smart ecosystem for pharma . November 25, 2019
MIT Sloan School of Management, What business leaders need to know about artificial intelligence . September 16, 2019
Hackernoon, Why Crypto-Trading Will Get Social in 2020 . September 13, 2019
GQ, Conheça o publicitário que encontrou uma saída num mercado tão competitivo . September 9, 2019
PRI’s The World, Will the next wave of humanoid robots make our lives better — or steal our jobs? . August 21, 2019 (Reposted on WGBH, Are Adorable Robots Coming For Your Job? ‘It’s never happened In The Past.’ August 23, 2019)
Human Resource Executive, Are ‘Superminds’ the Next Step in Tech Disruption? . August 2, 2019
Forbes, Top 10 IoT Startups of 2019 According To IoT Analytics . July 18, 2019
“Collective intelligence: Talks of the Future 2019 ,” Congreso Futuro (Premiere date: June 14, 2019)
Economía y Negocios, Goic presentará hoy indicaciones a la Ley del Cáncer en base a inédito método digital desarrollado con el MIT . April 8, 2019
The Wall Street Journal, What AI Will Do to Corporate Hierarchies . April 1, 2019
More Press Coverage
BBC, Are we close to solving the puzzle of consciousness? March 27, 2019
Bloomberg, Billionaire Has a New Goal for His 17,000 Workers: Learn to Code . March 19, 2019
Financial Times, The ‘softer’ side of business is harder to get right . February 24, 2019
Diario Financiero, Experto del MIT y el futuro trabajo: “Necesitamos pensar en cómo las máquinas nos pueden colaborar.” January 30, 2019
Deloitte Insights, Superminds: How humans and machines can work together . January 28, 2019
MIT Technology Review, How AI is changing knowledge work: MIT’s Thomas Malone , Podcast. January 24, 2019 (On Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mit-technology-review/business-lab )
Medium, Superalgos & The Trading Singularity . January 16, 2019
Prensa Antártica, Thomas Malone y las “supermentes” en #CongresoFuturo en Magallanes: entre inteligencia artificial, cambio climático y sociedad . January 13, 2019
La Opinión A Coruña, Nuestros logros son fruto de una red . January 4, 2019
dinheiro vivo, Novas Ideias e Novas Soluções . December 3, 2018
Fergus Nicoll, Interview with Thomas Malone , Business Matters, BBC World Service, November 29, 2018. (Interview segment at time 26:30 – 34:05. Discussion of the interview by commentators at time 34:05 – 41.45)
Forbes, Diversity Is The Key to Startup Success – What Can Early-stage Founders Do About It? November 12, 2018
all turtles, How swarm intelligence helps AI make better decisions . November 8, 2018
Breaker, How “Superminds” Will Help the World Solve Its Most Intractable Problems . October 17, 2018
Axios, The upside of humans – a lot of them . September 21, 2018
Netzwoche, Wie die Digitalisierung Mensch und Maschine zum Supergehirn vernetzt . September 17, 2018
The Economist, The pros and cons of collaboration . September 6, 2018
Management Today, How AI-human superminds will save jobs . August 20, 2018
People Matters, Collective Intelligence should be made a Core HR Function . August 15, 2018
“The Future of Collective Intelligence ,” The Day That Was (Channel 10, Israeli TV), July 31, 2018
The Australian Financial Review, Expanded opportunities in the new workplace . July 25, 2018
Management Today, What CEOs are reading – July 2018 . July 17, 2018
Insights Unboxed, How human intelligence differs from artificial intelligence . July 17, 2018
MIT Sloan: A Better World in the Making, Putting Collective Intelligence to Work . July 9, 2018
La Vanguardia, La inteligencia artificial sólo es conectar las humanas . July 9, 2018
MIT Sloan School of Management, 8 new business insights from MIT Sloan Management Review . July 6, 2018
Gizmodo, My 15 Favorite Science and Tech Books for Smart Beach Reading . July 5, 2018
Quartz, By the definition of consciousness, Apple could be considered a conscious organism . June 28, 2018
Entrepreneur Europe, Why Europe is Facing a Digital Skills Crisis . June 25, 2018
MarketWatch, Don’t worry, robots aren’t going to steal your job – yet . June 23, 2018
“The benefit of working in groups ,” Interview with Thomas Malone about ‘Superminds’. The Morning Show, Global TV (Canada), June 19, 2018
The Economist, Why collaborative thinking beats individual smarts . June 18, 2018
The Globe and Mail, Fake news is a problem. Maybe ‘superminds’ can help . June 15, 2018
The Wall Street Journal, Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of Humans and Machines . June 8, 2018
The Washington Post, In the future, college never really ends . June 6, 2018
Salon, What Elon Musk doesn’t understand about journalism . June 2, 2018
Bloomberg, Who Among Us Can Read a Sextant? June 1, 2018 (Reprint in The Post and Courier, New technology endangers old skills . June 3, 2018)
MIT Sloan Management Review, How Human-Computer ‘Superminds’ are Redefining the Future of Work . May 21, 2018
LinkedIn, Is cyber socialism worth a try? May 18, 2018 (Chinese translation , July 27, 2018)
MIT Sloan Newsroom, In ‘Superminds,’ an Argument for Calm About Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Jobs . May 15, 2018
MIT News, Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investment s. May 4, 2018
Forbes, Our New Publishing Platform Will Make You a Better Writer . April 20, 2018
Xconomy, Can AI Startups Compete with Tech Giants? December 26, 2017
MIT News, Exploring ethical dimensions of climate negotiation . December 18, 2017
El Mundo, El gigantismo de Google y Facebook . September 27, 2017
TechTarget, How to harness the collective intelligence of the enterprise . August 2, 2017
CCI paper on contest webs at CSCW, February 2017
CCI work on smart teams featured in MIT Exec Ed’s Innovation@Work , March 2017
Interview with Tom Malone, Harnessing the Power of Collective Intelligence , November 2016
CCI celebrates its 10th anniversary , November 2016
CCI measures the intelligence of online gaming teams, Nature News , March 2016
MIT News, Getting the world to turn down the heat. Janos Pasztor, U.N. climate advisor, highlights successes in Paris, challenges ahead . March 14, 2016
NY Times Magazine article on teams features MCI project’s findings, February 2016
How to Become the Smartest Group in the Room , Psychology Science, January 2016
Mark Klein interviewed by El Pais , January 2016
Building Better Organizations with Collective Intelligence: Webinar with Thomas W. Malone , July 22, 2015
Thomas W. Malone discusses the Climate CoLab in the Boston Globe, May 2015
MIT Sloan News – Climate CoLab crowdsources solutions for global problems , March 2015
Thomas W. Malone discusses group intelligence, NPR’s On Point, January 2015
Why Some Teams are Smarter than Others, NY Times, January 2015
Climate CoLab hosts webinar with former Secretary of State and former Congressman on U.S. carbon pricing , July 2014
Thomas Malone on building smarter teams, May 2014: Article , Video , Podcast
MIT Climate CoLab: Crowdsourcing climate change, one contest at a time , April 2014
Climate CoLab featured by the White House Climate Data Initiative , March 2014
George Shultz, Bob Inglis and Phil Sharp advise MIT Climate CoLab on carbon policy contest , March 2014
Article on Climate CoLab in PBS’s NOVA Next , January 2014
ClimateWire, Former Reagan official predicts Republican skeptics will be ‘mummed’ by climate change , July 2014
Peter Gloor on Coolhunting the Secrets of Success , July 2014
thepsychreport, MIT Crowdsources the Next Great (free) IQ Test , January 2014
PBS, How Millions of People Can Help Solve Climate Change , January 2014
Guardian Sustainable Business, Harnessing the crowd to promote sustainable innovation , November 2013
MIT News, Confronting climate change from the bottom up , November 2013
Thomas W. Malone speaks at IBM Cognitive Systems Colloquium , October 2, 2013, (video of this talk)
Think Progress, Citizen Science: How A Facebook Game Could Help Us Tackle Climate Change , October 2013
co.EXIST, 28 Ingenious Solutions To Our Climate Woes , October 2013
eBay, eBay Inc. employees create carpool app that’s recognized by MIT Climate CoLab competition , August 2013
Exploring Humanity’s Evolving Global Brain , December 2012
Collective Intelligence, A conversation with Thomas W. Malone , November 2012
Dalai Lama discusses global problems with Sloan professors , Thomas W. Malone, Deborah Ancona, John Sterman, MIT Sloan newsroom, Oct 17, 2012
Thomas W. Malone, panel discussion, MIT with the Dalai Lama , MIT News, Oct 16, 2012, (full video of the conference)
CCI research featured in Doonesbury comic strip , July 15, 2012
Climate Colab in NSF Highlights, Online Citizen Collaboration Provides Climate Solutions , June 5, 2012
Programming the Global Brain , May 2012
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Newsletter, Harnessing collective intelligence to address climate change: MIT’s Climate CoLab , May 2012
Sandy (Alex) Pentland, Finding good music in noisy online markets, MIT News, May 31, 2012
Thomas W. Malone receives honorary doctorate from University of Zurich , May 2012
Peter Gloor referenced in The Economist, The science of civil war – What makes heroic strife, April 21, 2012
Thomas W. Malone, Collective Intelligence 2012 , MIT Sloan Experts blog, April 2012
Thomas Malone quoted in Boston Globe , April 3, 2012
Thomas Malone, MIT conference focuses on ‘collective intelligence’ , Boston Herald, April 3, 2012
Thomas Malone, Collective Intelligence 2012, BusinessWire.com , April 2, 2012
CI 2012 Collective Intelligence 2012 – abstracts and videos from the conference, April 2012
Presentations by CCI affiliates at CSCW, February 2012:
CSCW 2012, Mark Klein co-organizer: Workshop on Collective Intelligence as Community Discourse and Action
CSCW 2012, Josh Introne co-organizer: Workshop on Design, Influence, and Social Technologies: Techniques, Impacts and Ethics
CSCW 2012, Yiftach Nagar presents: The Structuring of an Online Community as a Collective–Sensemaking Process
CSCW 2012, Katrina Panovich, Rob Miller, David Karger present: Tie Strength in Question & Answer on Social Network Sites
CSCW 2012, Paul André, Michael Bernstein, Kurt Luther present: Who Gives a Tweet? Evaluating Microblog Content Value
Fast Company, Climate CoLab: Harnessing The Hive Mind To Alleviate Climate Change January 2012
Yiftach Nagar, How will the practice of science change in your lifetime? , Science, NextGen VOICES, January 6, 2012
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (watch the video) joins CCI in celebrating its 5th anniversary, November 15, 2011
Thomas W. Malone, Climate CoLab, Collective intelligence to address climate change – finalists chosen in world-wide contest , MIT Sloan Experts Blog, November 1, 2011
Thomas W. Malone quoted in Scientific American blog, Can Collective Intelligence Provide Answers to Climate Change Questions?, October 28, 2011
Thomas W. Malone quoted in The New York Times, Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ , October 10, 2011
Thomas W. Malone quoted in The Economist, Angst for the educated , September 3, 2011
Thomas W. Malone, Robert J. Laubacher, Tammy Johns, The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization , Harvard Business Review (HBR), July/August 2011
Thomas W. Malone, Anita Williams Woolley, Defend Your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women, Harvard Business Review, June 2011
NiemanLab, MIT management professor Tom Malone on collective intelligence and the “genetic” structure of groups . May 4, 2011
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tweeting for Social Good in Davos , HBR Blog Network, February 1, 2010