Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Launch Discovery Loop
An AI Pioneer honored at Loeb House turns to automating discovery itself On August 5, 2026, Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google, announced his departure after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation, where he will serve as chief executive....
AIWS Trust Rating Enters Asia’s Largest Enterprises
Phase 1 begins with banking, financial, insurance and telecommunications enterprises in Vietnam and ASEAN On August 6, 2026, Ambassador Vu Quang Minh, Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Representative of the Boston Global Forum in Vietnam, presented AIWS...
A Framework No One Can See – The United States delivers its frontier AI review process and declines to publish it
On August 3 the White House announced that it had met the deadline set by the June 2 executive order Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security, which required a framework...
BEACON PAPERS NO. 6 – Who May Author? Human Authorship, AI Assistants, and Responsibility in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
As artificial intelligence becomes capable of drafting speeches, research papers, legal arguments, policies, and works of extraordinary sophistication, a fundamental question is emerging: Who is the...
Working With AI – What five assistants have taught us at AIWS Lumina Lab
For several years the public conversation about artificial intelligence has circled one question: how intelligent will these systems become? Our work at AIWS Lumina Lab has raised another, which...
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GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR DIGITAL GOVERNANCE
The Contribution Economy – It Is Time to Reward Those Who Make AI Trustworthy
Why do we build so brilliantly for capability, and so poorly for trust? That question opens Chapter 11 of America at 250: A Beacon...
From Rogue Agent To Kill Switch
Washington Confronts the New Politics of Human Command The fallout from the OpenAI–Hugging Face security incident widened this week,...
The ExploitGym Incident
The ExploitGym Incident The First Historic Test of Trust Infrastructure BGF Weekly • July 26, 2026 I. WHAT HAPPENED On July 24, 2026,...
A founder of Human – Centered AI presents The Boston Declaration
A FOUNDER OF HUMAN-CENTERED AI PRESENTS THE BOSTON DECLARATION Professor Ben Shneiderman Introduces the Boston Declaration in his...