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
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...
AIWS City made its way to the Mediterranean Area
AIWS City made its way to the Mediterranean Area on November 17 and 18, 2023. During this time, Joseph Caristena, the Founder of the Mediterranean Academy of Cultural Diplomacy, engaged in discussions with Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of BGF, at the iconic Excelsior Palace...
A wary AI’s ethics discussion is essential to ensure the future of AI and robotics
On September 20, AIWS Conference with the theme ‘AI-Government and AI Arms Races and Norms’ was held at Harvard University Faculty Club by Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI). The key message of this conference lies in the importance of moral...
Agreement to ban on Killer Robots has been passed by the European Parliament
The European Council recently brought out the resolution to ban killer robots. It has called on its Member States to adapt the resolution to ensure human’s future. On September 12, 2018, 82% of the votes agree to ban lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAW)...
Can a robot farm operate with human workers?
An emerging autonomous farm with robots tends rows of leafy green under the control of a software named “The Brain”. Recently, Iron Ox is opening its production line in San Francisco. The production line is set up in an 8,000-square foot hydroponic facility with the...
BrainNet: A system can connect three people thoughts
A group of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle has successfully connected human brains in the first brain-to-brain network. The possibility of thoughts communication that used to be considered science fiction is now turned into reality. In 2015,...
The US is aiming to make a national effort in protecting cyberspace
Under Trump administration, his advisers are in search for cybersecurity moonshot. Cyber Moonshot refers to a clear plan for securing the digital landscape over the next five years originated from the first moon landing of the US, but it lacked the vision for...
Global Governance for Information Integrity Roundtable in Riga: Addressing the information’s disruption on social media
On September 27, 2018 at Riga, a roundtable on Global Governance for Information Integrity hosted by the WLA-CdM took place at the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Latvia. Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of BGF and Director of...