Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Five ways to make AI a greater force for good in 2021
A year ago, none the wiser about what 2020 would bring, I reflected on the pivotal moment that the AI community was in. The previous year, 2018, had seen a series of high-profile automated failures, like self-driving-car crashes and discriminatory recruiting tools. In 2019, the field responded with more talk of AI ethics than ever before. But talk, I said, […]
The Quad Group advises President-elect Joe Biden: The role of the Social Contract for the AI Age is to protect democratic values and to maintain world peace and security
A PDF of the Report can be found here. Social Contract for the AI Age is to eliminate all...
AI Debate 2: Night of a thousand AI scholars
A year ago, Gary Marcus, a frequent critic of deep learning forms of AI, and Yoshua Bengio, a...
Why Covid Will Make AI Go Mainstream In 2021: Top 3 Trends For Enterprises
What were the golden periods of innovation in modern history? Significant innovation did not occur...
Predictions for AI in 2021
Artificial intelligence has expanded its grip on our lives throughout the past year. Even as a...
Ten Workforce Skills For Finance Employees To Complement AI
AI is here and will be an increasingly prominent tool for many companies, big and small. For those...
The Multicore Era Is Over — We Need A New Architecture For AI
Multicore chip making bought us two decades of performance gains, but now it's reaching the...
How IBM Is Working Toward a Fairer AI
Humans have many kinds of biases. To name just a few, we suffer from confirmation bias, which...
This could lead to the next big breakthrough in common sense AI
You’ve probably heard us say this countless times: GPT-3, the gargantuan AI that spews uncannily...