Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
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 technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications that don’t […]
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...
How to Build Accountability into Your AI
When it comes to managing artificial intelligence, there is no shortage of principles and concepts...
Rules for bringing AI into the classroom
Teachers are one of the professions least at risk of being automated. A job that requires emotional...
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch COVID. None of them helped.
When COVID-19 struck Europe in March 2020, hospitals were plunged into a health crisis that was...
NSF Makes Huge Investment In Eleven New Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that it was funding 11 new National...
How the National Science Foundation is taking on fairness in AI
Most of the public discourse around artificial intelligence (AI) policy focuses on one of two...