Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask
Instead of machines pursuing goals of their own, the new thinking goes, they should seek to satisfy human preferences; their only goal should be to learn more about what our […]
SOCIAL CONTRACT 2020: TOWARD SAFETY, SECURITY, & SUSTAINABILITY FOR AI WORLD
Preface Advances in AI, Internet, social media, and threats to cybersecurity jointly shape a new...
The battle for ethical AI
Diversity and inclusion took centre stage at one of the world’s major artificial-intelligence...
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...