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
Photo album from “Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity”
At the BGF Conference “Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity,” hosted at Harvard University Loeb House on April 30, 2024, Dr. Alondra Nelson was honored with the World Leader in AIWS 2024 Award, and the “Knowledge Platform for AI” was introduced and...
Jeff Saviano as Director of AIWS Ethics and his presentation at BGF Conference
Boston Global Forum is proud to announce the appointment of Jeffrey N. Saviano as the Director of AIWS Ethics. Jeffrey brings a wealth of experience to this role as a Partner at EY, a Scholar at the Harvard Center for Ethics, and a Fellow of MIT Connection Science. As...
Meeting of key coordinators of the Global Alliance for Digital Governance
On July 30, 2021, key coordinators of Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) met to define core works and plans of GADG 2021 - 2022. Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT), MEP Eva Kaili, Zlatko Lagumdzija (former PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Paul Nemitz (Principal...
POLICY LAB – FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN AI & DIGITAL SOCIETIES: TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL ACCORD
Dates: September 7-9, 2021 Co-organizers: Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum Paul Twomey served from 2003 to 2010 as the President and CEO of ICANN, a role which the New York Times described as “the Chief Operating Officer of the Internet”. He will speak at...
Students of the AIWS Leadership Master program 2020 – 2021 have graduated
The AIWS LEADERSHIP MASTER PROGRAM educates young global leaders that will shape the world in the AI Age, focusing on innovation, AI technology, and leadership. AI technology is the basics and foundation for leadership, applying an innovative model in education: study...
The standards for AI International Accord and challenges to implementation
Members of AI International Accord Team are discussing its standards and challenges in its implementation. The standards are based off the Social Contract for the AI Age, the foundation for a peaceful, secure, and prosperous world in the AI Age. Only with these...
Eva Kaili is the lead speaker at the Panel “Toward an International Accord: Global Alliance for Digital Governance” of the CdM-BGF Policy Lab
For 2021, CdM in partnership with BGF will organize a Policy Lab on Fundamental Rights in AI & Digital Societies: Towards an International Accord. This Policy Lab will be organized online, September 7-9. On a multistakeholder basis, discussions will focus on:...
World Leaders contribute to the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”
Remaking the World - Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment was officially released on Boston Global Forum and the United Nations Centennial Initiative. We are grateful to World Leader Award recipients that contributed: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European...