Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
The battle for ethical AI
Diversity and inclusion took centre stage at one of the world’s major artificial-intelligence (AI) conferences in 2018. But once a meeting with a controversial reputation, last month’s Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference in Vancouver, Canada, saw attention shift to another big issue in the field: ethics. The focus comes as AI research increasingly deals […]
Europe Mulls New Tougher Rules for Artificial Intelligence
The European Union is considering new legally binding requirements for developers of artificial...
Samsung’s new Neon project is finally unveiled: It’s a humanoid AI chatbot
Neon's super realistic digital people are real. Well, sort of. The mysterious company, emerging...
No More Phones and Other Tech Predictions for the Next Decade
More investment in tech that addresses climate change. With all due respect to Greta Thunberg and...
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
Short-range phone sensors and campuswide WiFi networks are empowering colleges across the United...
Democratizing AI? Finland Did It
Finland already let the whole world know this country is for disruption (in a good way). On...
Deepfake Regulation in China
According to South China Morning Post, China has issued “new rules to clamp down on deepfake...
Top 10 Books on AI for Leaders in the New Age
There are many books out there about AI, but which should we read? Towards Data Science compiled a...
Now we can tell robots not to harm people
Isaac Asimov was a prolific writer known for his works in science fiction and popular science. In...