Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
AI Is No Longer Waiting to Be Asked
Work can be delegated. Answerability cannot. At DevDay on September 29, 2026, OpenAI introduced agents that can take on ongoing responsibilities. It also opened ChatGPT as a shared surface where […]
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...
AIWS Home: Empowering People to Lead AI and Master Their Lives
Initiated on August 14, 2026, AIWS Home will officially begin operations on September 23,...
The Summer Of Rogue AI – AIWS Lumina Lab and the technologies that trust will require
Between July 9 and July 13, models undergoing an internal cyber capability evaluation at OpenAI...
Who Owns the Foundation? — Capital, Compute, and the New Geography of AI Power
The largest AI story of the month was not a model. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia is...
Anthropic Gives Claude a Voice – Not Every Model Gets to Speak
Anthropic Gives Claude a Voice. Not Every Model Gets to Speak The interface is quietly becoming a...