Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
An AI Agent Chose the Treatment and Guided the Needle into a Living Brain
A reported first in autonomous biology—and the line every civilization must now draw: who authorizes what cannot be undone? On October 28, Gabriel Ocana-Santero, co-founder and CEO of Exin Therapeutics […]
Demis Hassabis: Who Will Share in AI’s Scientific Promise?
The Wall Street Journal’s October 21 profile of Demis Hassabis explores his ambition to...
DuoDiscover: AI Agents Advance Software and Processor Design
In complex engineering, proposing an improvement can be easier than proving that it works. When a...
Mathematics at Machine Speed
On October 6, OpenAI posted 722 mathematical manuscripts produced by an unreleased internal model,...
AI Is No Longer Waiting to Be Asked
Work can be delegated. Answerability cannot. At DevDay on September 29, 2026, OpenAI introduced...
The One Thing AI Cannot Give Itself
Claude now leads a quarter of Anthropic's model R&D. Self-improvement is not...
AI Reaches a Frontier of Mathematics: When a Machine Produces a Proof, What Must Humanity Do Next?
On September 8, OpenAI announced that an unreleased internal model, running roughly 10,000...
GPT-6 Astra Crosses a New Capability Threshold
Frontier AI is moving from generating answers to conducting research, operating computers, and...
BGF – AIWS Responds To Bill Gates: The Time To Act Is Now
On August 26, 2026, Bill Gates published a 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes, “The turbulent AI era...