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
Global Challenges and the UN 2030 Sustainability Goals: Navigating a World in Crisis
On November 15, 2024, the Institute of Future and Innovation Studies at John Cabot University, Rome, hosted a roundtable, "Global Challenges and the UN 2030 Sustainability Goals: Navigating a World in Crisis," moderated by Francesco Lapenta, its director. This event...
Celebrating Michael Dukakis’s 90th birthday: Official publication of the book on Governor Dukakis
On November 17, 2023, the Boston Global Forum marked a significant occasion by officially publishing the book titled "From the Massachusetts Miracle to the Age of Global Enlightenment" in celebration of Governor Michael Dukakis's 90th birthday. Governor Dukakis, the...
A new AI project is being launched aiming to enable the adaptability of AI
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AI World Conference and Expo 2018
From December 3rd to 5th, AI World Conference and Expo 2018 will take place in Boston, the three-day conference will discuss AI strategy and applications involved with several concerns such as Implementing Enterprise AI, AI in Healthcare, Pharma or Cognitive...
The way cancer spreads can be anticipated using AI
A team from The Institute of Cancer Research, London (ICR) and the University of Edinburgh has come up with a measure to foresee cancers expansion, which is believed to be a great support for cancer treatment. The team developed a new method known as Revolver...
Rethink Robotics suddenly closes their business
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Education for Shared Societies Policy Dialogue in Lisbon, Portugal
The Education for Shared Societies (E4SS) Policy Dialogue will take place on October 16-17th 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal with the participation of about 40 democratic formers leaders of states and governments. The dialogue is organized by the World Leadership Alliance -...
Professor Joseph Nye addressed the problem of norms for AI at AIWS Conference 2018
Professor Joseph Nye, Member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers and Distinguished Service Professor of Harvard University, addressed the problem of norms for AI at AIWS Conference on September 20, 2018 at Harvard University Faculty Club. Gov. Michael Dukakis,...