Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
How AI is reinventing what computers are
Google’s latest offering, the Pixel 6, is the first phone to have a separate chip dedicated to AI that sits alongside its standard processor. And the chip that runs the iPhone has for the last couple of years contained what Apple calls a “neural engine,” also dedicated to AI. Both chips are better suited to […]
The Security and Foreign Policy Forum the Rīga Conference 2021
The conference provides an opportunity for stakeholders to identify the current security and...
Why Aren’t Governments Paying More Attention to AI?
AI has come a long way over the past decade. The compute resources dedicated to the technology...
Algorithmic Warfare: AI Key to Unlocking New Space Applications
Experts say artificial intelligence — which has wide applications across the military, civil and...
AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules
Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be the inventor of new patents, the UK Court of Appeal has...
U.N. urges moratorium on use of AI that imperils human rights
The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence...
How Midsize Companies Can Compete in AI
In the upcoming age of AI, two very different classes of companies appear well-positioned to...
For Patients to Trust Medical AI, They Need to Understand It
Artificial intelligence-enabled health applications for diagnostic care are becoming widely...
Stanford machine learning algorithm predicts biological structures more accurately than ever before
Determining the 3D shapes of biological molecules is one of the hardest problems in modern biology...