Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
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 three-hour internet live-stream, for the first time, a “dramatic” […]
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...
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...