Audrey Tang, 2025 World Leader in AIWS Award Recipient, coauthored an essay highlighting the need for AI tools that support meaningful civic discourse in the face of rampant polarization and mistrust. The essay is part of a series published by McGill's Centre for...
1966: ELIZA, the first chatbot, is created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT. ELIZA simulates a Rogerian psychotherapist and demonstrates the potential of simple natural language processing techniques. ELIZA, an early natural language processing program, was designed to...
The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) has launched Shaping Futures magazine. The new magazine will cover Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cybersecurity innovations, initiatives, and solutions, as we with a focus on creating a better world...
AI is reshaping the world, to the extent that the current liberal democracy might be replaced with digital authoritarianism. Is this an incoming struggle between liberal democracy and digital authoritarianism? The two usual themes of AI dominance in the world includes...
In the conversation with business executives in Industry 4.0 Forum held on 12th and 13th of July, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc put forward his interests and strategy for Vietnam. Vietnamese Prime Minister (center) and MDI’s Director Nguyen Anh Tuan...
On July 25th, Vietnam CEO Summit 2018 will take place in Hanoi with the participation of MDI’s Director Nguyen Anh Tuan and Prof. Jason Furman, who was named by President Barack Obama as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The Summit is expected to bring an...
The two nations are in a technology race to create a supercomputer that could result in major advances in many fields. Reported by MIT Technology Review, last month, the US Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer called Summit. Thus, a...
AI is offering huge opportunities to industries, it’s our choice to change or not. The rust belt in the US’s heartland- Pittsburgh is witnessing a huge transformation, Pittsburg was once a land of facilities of steel and coal, structures of coke, now they are a fading...