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
Strategies for Democracy to Win in the AI Battle
At the Boston Global Forum conference honoring French President Emmanuel Macron with the “2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award,” Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, Yi-Jing Lin, spoke at the “AIWS – New Democracy” panel session on “Strategies for...
President Biden Appoints Alondra Nelson to the National Science Board
President Joe Biden has appointed Professor Alondra Nelson—a recipient of the World Leader in AIWS Award and the Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study—to serve as a Member of the National Science Board (NSB)....
Robot is capable of grasping objects after identifying progress
A recent breakthrough in computer vision has given robot the ability to differentiate objects. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has recently made progress in computer vision that lets machines identify objects and take actions...
Researchers are training medical AI to combat cancer
Researchers at chip company Nvidia, the Mayo Clinic, and the MGH & BWH Center for Clinical Data Science have built an algorithm which can creates various data sets for medical AI to study. [video width="592" height="336"...
Bruce Schneier calls for slower innovation in internet-connected things to protect ourselves
Reported by MIT Technology Review, Bruce Schneier expresses his fear of losing lives to cyber disasters. Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He was honored Business Leader in Cybersecurity in...
Global Governance for Information Integrity in Riga
A roundtable on Global Governance for Information Integrity hosted by the WLA - Club de Madrid will take place on the 27th of September addressing the information’s disruption on social media. There has been an increasing concern about the spread of fake news through...
Agenda of The AIWS Conference, September 20, 2018 at Harvard Faculty Club
THE AIWS CONFERENCE AI-Government and AI Arms Races and Norms ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ TIME: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Thursday, September 20th, 2018 VENUE: Harvard University Faculty Club – 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 MODERATOR: Governor...
The first regional leadership seminar in the framework of its flagship “Young Mediterranean Voices” programme
On January 14th-19th, 2019, the first regional leadership seminar in the framework of its flagship “Young Mediterranean Voices” programme will be launched with the participation of top countries’ leaders of this programme. The aim is to create an exciting method for...





