Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Combating Deepfakes and Fake News
With today’s AI advances, deepfakes and fake news can easily be produced to sound and look so human-like and trustworthy that we cannot tell the difference. In an earlier episode […]
New Research Alliance on AI Ethics
China’s approach to AI was to put its development under the control of the government. By...
The US Leads World in AI
It is no question that AI can boost competitiveness, increase productivity, protect national...
Trick Me If You Can
Seeing how computers “think” helps humans stump machines and reveals AI weaknesses. That is...
Biological learning curves outperform existing ones in artificial intelligence algorithms
For almost 70 years, despite many advances in machine learning, there remain “different...
SOLID: Enabling the decentralized web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 with his implementation of the first...
An AI Lab’s Ambition to Mimic the Brain
OpenAI is an AI lab founded in 2015 as a non-profit by Elon Musk and Sam Altman with the goal to...
Elon Musk’s Next Wild Promise
Neuralink, a neurotechnology company owned by Musk, crept out of the corporate shadows Tuesday July...
NIST Sets Draft Guidelines for Government AI
This is the first formal step in writing the standards that will guide the implementation of...