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
The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI
The US government issued new rules Thursday requiring more caution and transparency from federal agencies using artificial intelligence, saying they are needed to protect the public as AI rapidly advances. But the new policy also has provisions to encourage AI...
Speech of former State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama at the Shinzo Abe Initiative Conference 2024
My name is Yasuhide NAKAYAMA, Coordinator of the Global Alliance for Digital Governance in Japan and Taiwan. I am pleased to announce the hosting of the Boston Global Forum’s SHINZO ABE INITIATIVE CONFERENCE 2024. I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to...
Japanese Minister Eto opened the Dialog of “Disputing Territories and World Peace”
World peace and security are threatened by disputed territories and extreme nationalism, especially when great powers are contestants. To maintain world peace and security, the Boston Global Forum organize the Online Dialog of “Disputing Territories and World Peace”...
Pompeo’s statement and The Clean Network program
On August 5, 2020, State Secretary Michael Pompeo announced the expansion of the clean network to safeguard America’s assets. The program highlights many points that were also from the Social Contract 2020 The Clean Network program is the Trump Administration’s...
Truera applies explainability AI research to grow its model evaluation platform
As AI impacts more industries and areas of society, startups are building testing tools to help companies and governments assess the state of their models and identify potential compliance issues. Google Cloud chief AI scientist Andrew Moore recently predicted that...
Japanese Minister Seiichi Eto: China is unfair and create tensions in the Senkaku Islands of Japan
This is a talk at the Dialog of “Disputing Territories and World Peace” Seiichi Eto, the Japanese Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, talks about the Senkaku Islands on the Boston Global Forum, August 8, 2020. He criticizes: China does not...
Thomas Patterson in the Boston Globe: “The GOP’s moral trap”
Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School, Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, is co-author of the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI. He recently posted his writing in the Opinion Section of Boston Globe, July 27,...
MIT Professor in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture joins the Board of the History of AI
Professor Caroline A. Jones, MIT, has joined the History of AI Board at AIWS.net. She is a Professor in History, Theory, and Criticism of the Architecture Department at MIT. She wrote a chapter of the book “Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking At AI” (2019), whose...