Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
AI Is Changing the Structure of Consulting Firms
By David S. Duncan, Tyler Anderson, and Jeffrey Saviano – Harvard Business Review, September 2025 Artificial intelligence is not just a tool for consultants—it is transforming the very structure of […]
IBM and AMD Join Forces on Quantum and Next-Generation Computing
A landmark partnership was announced on August 26, 2025, as IBM and AMD revealed plans to combine...
USAi: America’s AI Experimentation Platform
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has launched USAi, a secure generative AI evaluation...
Photonic Computing in AI World Society
The newly launched Report on Emerging Computing Pathways in Quantum, Neuromorphic, and Photonic...
The Trump-OpenAI AI Partnership: A Catalyst for Government Productivity and AI Infrastructure Investment
The Trump-OpenAI AI partnership, announced earlier this month, marks a seismic shift in how the...
U.S. Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: Charting a Path Forward
As artificial intelligence becomes a central driver of economic growth, innovation, and national...
“It’s a feature, not a bug” – How journalists can spot and mitigate AI bias
Consultant and executive coach Ramaa Sharma spoke to leading figures in the newsroom AI space to...
Could Metasurfaces Be The Next Quantum Information Processors?
Researchers blend theoretical insight and precision experiments to entangle photons on an...
Operationalizing AI Ethics: From Principles to Practice
In the Shaping Futures section of this week’s BGF Weekly, we spotlight the influential article...