Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Russian’s Internet Sovereignty?
Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Early this year, a “sovereign internet” law was proposed before the country’s parliament to require that internet service providers use only domestic […]
Your Privacy No Longer Protected with Your MRI Scans
You do not want to go to the hospital for brain scans, but if you have to, they can be used to...
AI Winter Coming?
Yes, there is a lot of hype about AI these days. But “is it to stay, or will it fade away as it...
A New Kind of Deep Learning?
What is the limitation with today’s deep learning? It is good at finding patterns in data, but...
Elon Musk’s flight to Mars?
Elon Musk is known for “wild” ideas. And we said it in a good way. In July, he announced via a...
Disinformation Campaign? More than 70 Countries Did It.
Professor Howard is a statutory Professor of Internet Studies and Director of the Oxford Internet...
Funding for Universities: The effect of the Epstein Scandal
Nationally-known sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to MIT, Harvard, and numerous institutions...
Who will train the next generation of AI innovators?
The AI professors, supposedly. But a recently released study by University of Rochester researchers...
Combating Deepfakes and Fake News
With today’s AI advances, deepfakes and fake news can easily be produced to sound and look so...