Artificial Intelligence World Society
Mission
The mission of AIWS is to develop recommendations for the development and implementation of AI in ways that promote the public interest. This includes:
- Develop an ethical framework for the use of AI.
- Create a new social contract in the AI Age.
- Establish concepts and principles for the 7-layer AIWS.
- Innovate technical protocols to enhance cybersecurity and protect privacy.
- Building AI-Government, the AIWS City, and AI Initiatives in Politics and Society.
Foundation
The AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net) is established by former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Internet pioneer Nguyen Anh Tuan, M.I.T. professors Nazli Choucri and Alex Sandy Pentland, Harvard professors Thomas Patterson and David Silbersweig, and Northeastern University professor Christo Wilson.
This effort is sponsored by the Boston Global Forum, Michael Dukakis Institute, the Government of Massachusetts, and MIT and mentored by distinguished thinkers as father of Internet Vint Cerf, father of Bayesian networks Judea Pearl, father of soft power theory Joseph Nye, and from former presidents and prime ministers who are members of the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid.
AIWS will identify, publish and promote principles for the virtuous application of AI, while AIWS.net will develop apps, solutions consistent with these principles for use in politics, governments, healthcare, education, transportation, national security, and other areas.
AIWS.net is constructed on four pillars:
1. Connecting
AIWS.net connects with political leaders, policymakers, governments of more than 50 countries include G7, Russia, India etc., international organizations as United Nations, OECD, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, and distinguished thinkers, innovators, research centers from leading universities as Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Brandeis, University of Pennsylvania, Oxford, Cambridge etc. Through AIWS.net leaders, and distinguished thinkers will together discuss, create initiatives, solutions, applications, and practice them to build a better world with AI.
2. Monitoring and Judging:
AIWS.net will monitor AI developments and uses by governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations to assess whether they comply with the norms and standards codified in the AIWS Social Contract 2020. Noncompliant actors will be identified and publicized through fact-based reports.
3. Principles and Solutions:
Principles of AI-Governments, AI-Citizens, AIWS Social Contract 2020, AIWS City and principles of applied AI in politics, governments, education, healthcare, transportation, national security and create solutions to practicing these principles.
Assisting the United Nations in its UN 2045 Centenary Project, including preparation of a volume of forward- looking essays (curated by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan) on technological change.
Together with principles of AIWS, the Social Contract 2020, AIWS.net created the section Modern Causal Inference (MCI) to introduce and encourage applied Causal Inference and AI in politics, governments, healthcare, and economy. Professor Judea Pearl, UCLA, Turing Award, World Leader in AIWS Award, lead MCI section.
4. The History of Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Historical events, achievements, and figures in AI: The AI Chronicle updated monthly, and The History of AI House, both online and physical at Novaworld Phan Thiet, Vietnam.
The HAI Board is chaired by Governor Michael Dukakis, with Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT), Professor Caroline Jones (MIT), Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Historian Chien Minh Le, President of Dalat University, Professor Ole Molvig (Vanderbilt University), Tuan Anh Nguyen (Michael Dukakis Institute), Professor Thomas Patterson (Harvard University), Professor Judea Pearl (UCLA), Professor Alex Pentland (MIT), Marc Rotenberg (Michael Dukakis Institute), Professor David Silbersweig (Harvard University), and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Latvia, Dr. Lorraine Kisselburgh (Chair of ACM’s Global Technology Policy Council), Professor Randall Davis (Associate Director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1993-1998)), and Professor Caroline A. Jones (MIT) as members.
AIWS NEWS

Microsoft’s Majorana 1 chip carves new path for quantum computing
Microsoft today introduced Majorana 1, the world’s first quantum chip powered by a new Topological Core architecture that it expects will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades. It leverages the world’s...

Statement From Former Japanese State Minister Yasuhide NAKAYAMA
AI Action Summit Conference Paris, February 10-11, 2025 Session: Government 24/7: How AI Might Best Transform Governance Yasuhide NAKAYAMA, Former State Minister of Defense, Former State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Former State Minister for the Cabinet Office of...
Dialog with Jürgen Schmidhuber “Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning”
The History of AI (HAI) will be organizing an AIWS roundtable on February 17, 2023, at 9:00 am EST, to discuss the Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning, written by renowned AI researcher Jürgen Schmidhuber. HAI at AIWS considers this work is a significant...
The 90th birthday of Michael Dukakis: From the Massachusetts Miracle to the Age of Global Enlightenment
This year 2023 marks the 90th birthday of former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, born on November 3, 1933. Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute will celebrate his remarkable life by a series of events with the theme "90th birthday of Michael...
United Nations Centennial Initiative’s co-chairs invite leaders, artists, and writers to accompany in building an Age of Global Enlightenment
Boston, February 9, 2023 Dear Leaders, Artists, and Writers, As Co-Chairs of the Boston Global Forum's contribution to the United Nations Centennial, we are writing to you with a mission to create a new era of global enlightenment in the run-up to the 100th...
Concept notes for Regulation Framework for ChatGPT and AI Assistants
On February 8, 2023, Boston Global Forum and Global Alliance for Digital Governance announced concept notes for a Regulation Framework for ChatGPT and AI Assistants: Transparency: AI Assistants and ChatGPT should be transparent in their operations and decision-making...
AIWS City: ChatGPT as an AI Assistant to build the Age of Global Enlightenment
In 2020, the Boston Global Forum (BGF), under the leadership of Governor Michael Dukakis, launched concepts for an Age of Global Enlightenment based on AIWS (Artificial Intelligence World Society) and the United Nations Centennial Initiative. This launch marked the...
Vint Cerf Awarded IEEE Medal of Honor
Vint Cerf, father of the Internet, World Leader in AIWS Award 2019 recipient, a distinguished contributor to Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, a Global Enlightenment Leader, and co-founder of the AIWS City, is honored by the IEEE. The IEEE...