Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
AI invents new ‘recipes’ for potential COVID-19 drugs
As scientists uncover drugs that can treat coronavirus infections, demand will almost certainly outstrip supplies—as is already happening with the antiviral remdesivir. To prevent shortages, researchers have come up with […]
OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3
In June 2020, OpenAI launched GPT-3 (generative pre-training) that is the third generation of the...
United Nations 2045 Roundtable – Building A Trustworthy Economy
AI World Society (AIWS.net), the Boston Global Forum (BGF), and United Nations (UN) Academic Impact...
Data versus Science: Contesting the Soul of Data-Science
The upcoming Spanish translation of “The Book of Why” was announced in July, 2020. It has...
Building a new economy after the COVID-19 pandemic
On July 1, 2020, at Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance, organized by the Boston Global...
For discussion at the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference Protecting and Strengthening Democracy in the Aftermath of COVID-19
Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance (DADG) The Social Contract 2020, A New Social...
Intellectual Society – Thoughtful Civil Society at the United Nations Charter Day Roundtable, June 26, 2020
As a part of United Nations 2045 Initiative - UNleashed 2045: The United Nations at 100, the United...
The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning
The dramatic success in machine learning has led to an explosion of AI applications and increasing...
Telling and Re-telling History: The case for a whiggish account of the history of causation
Professor Judea Pearl wrote a note on the case for a whiggish account of the history of causation,...