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

Four Pillars Roundup: Remarks by the Vice President JD Vance at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris
On February 11, 2025, at the AI Action Summit Paris, Vice President JD Vance delivered his remarks. Here are some key notes: “Number one, this administration will ensure that American AI technology continues to be the gold standard worldwide and we are the partner of...

Boston Global Forum Announces 2025 World Leader in AIWS Award Recipient Audrey Tang at AI Action Summit Paris
On February 11, 2025, at the "Government 24/7: How AI Might Best Transform Governance" session, a part of the AI Action Summit Paris, Boston Global Forum (BGF) Co-chair and CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan announced that the recipient of the 2025 World Leader in AI World Society...
Professor Thomas Patterson will discuss with Barry Nolan about the Republican Party on May 5
Professor Thomas Patterson, co-founder of Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, will speak about his new book “Is the Republican Party Destroying Itself?” at 10:00 am (EST), May 5, 2020 at AIWS.net. The moderator is Mr. Barry Nolan, member of the Boston Global Forum...
President Danilo Türk, Prime Ministers Kim Campbell and Jan Peter Balkenende will discuss on AIWS Roundtable May 12, 2020
The Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) will co-organize the Online AIWS Roundtable with the attendence of President of WLA-CdM, and Former President of Slovenia Danilo Türk, Former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell, and...
MIT presents AI frameworks that compress models and encourage agents to explore
In a pair of papers accepted to the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2020, MIT researchers investigated new ways to motivate software agents to explore their environment and pruning algorithms to make AI apps run faster. Taken together, the...
Top Research Papers on Causal Inference
As researchers pursued the inevitable AGI in machines, there has been a renewed interest in the idea of causality in models. There are significant implications to applying machine learning to problems of causal inference in fields such as healthcare, economics and...
AIWS Summit 2020: Speech by Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament
AIWS Summit 2020: Speech by Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament April 28, 2020 Anf. Andreas Norlén, AI World Society Summit 2020, the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid ———————– Governor Dukakis, Excellencies, Ladies and...
Taxation and Technology Global Dialogue: Leveraging innovative technologies for a fair and efficient tax system in a post-COVID19 world
EY (Ernst & Young), MIT Connection Science, Michael Dukakis Institute, World Bank, and New America are partners to establish The Prosperity Collaborative to advance practical solutions in the financial crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19...