AI-Kitchen Series

Making it easier to understand how algorithms are shaping daily life — and how they could be improved. The AI-Kitchen initiative reverse-engineered popular algorithms from platforms like Tinder and Airbnb, creating plain-language briefings and hosting regular discussion events.

Monthly gatherings in Harvard Square brought together professionals and students from academia and industry around core themes: human values and their relationship to AI, algorithmic writing and critique, and UI design in algorithmic contexts.

The initiative’s success directly inspired a new engineering school course launched in Fall 2017.