Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Review: ‘The Book of Why’ Examines the Science of Cause and Effect
Everyone knows that the cock’s crowing at dawn does not “cause” the sun to rise. Conversely, we have equal confidence “that flipping a switch will cause a light to turn on or off and that a sultry summer afternoon will cause sales to go up at the local ice cream parlor.” Such intuitions are integral […]
“Doing machine learning the right way”
Professor Aleksander Madry, MIT, strives to build machine-learning models that are more reliable,...
Neural hardware for image recognition in nanoseconds
MIT Techreview briefs about an ultra-fast image sensor with a built-in neural network that has been...
The problem with the EU’s AI strategy
Last week, the European Union issued its long-anticipated white paper on artificial intelligence....
Artificial Intelligence (AI) And The Law: Helping Lawyers While Avoiding Biased Algorithms
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help every sector of the economy. There is a...
AI-Driven Solutions to the Coronavirus
To battle the novel coronavirus that’s been linked to Wuhan, China, researchers are using...
An AI regulation strategy that could really work
Professor Professor Gillian Hadfield is director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology...
Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask
Instead of machines pursuing goals of their own, the new thinking goes, they should seek to satisfy...
SOCIAL CONTRACT 2020: TOWARD SAFETY, SECURITY, & SUSTAINABILITY FOR AI WORLD
Preface Advances in AI, Internet, social media, and threats to cybersecurity jointly shape a new...