News Summary:
On September 18, 2026, Pap Souleye Fall is scheduled to perform "INVISIBLETOWHOM Arc 2 (2026)" at MIT, a narrative emerging from Fall's "DEAD PIXEL (2020–ongoing)" world, with Fall portraying the protagonist to destabilize order and conjure spirits. Earlier on the same day, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report warned that artificial intelligence is causing "cognitive surrender," amidst increasing concerns that AI degrades education as students widely adopt it for various tasks, including cheating, even as many university leaders express enthusiasm for AI. Concurrently, Dave Martinez from MIT Lincoln Laboratory delivered a keynote address at the High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) 30th Year Anniversary virtual conference, which showcased over 150 presentations, with more than 30 focusing on AI. Also on September 18, Sam Gunn of MIT presented at a Statistics and Data Science Seminar, discussing the efficient deletion of data from trained AI models and its implications for interpretability, privacy, data attribution, and basic science. Additionally, Robert Wickham (SB '93, SM '95), a founding partner of Asia-Pacific health and medtech venture capital fund Synthesis Capital, joined an MIT Sloan Alumni Online discussion regarding venture capital, innovation, and MIT.
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