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
Crystalizing oncoming crises: Four Pillars week
In this week’s Four Pillars, we will look at the two fronts of concerns for the Four Pillars – Europe, particularly Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific Russia, Ukraine, and related updates: US will send $1.7 billion in military aid to Ukraine [ABC News] Russia is relying on...
Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition and Boston Global Forum host roundtable with Politburo Member Nguyen Xuan Thang on AI Strategies and Tech Development of Vietnam
On August 2, 2024, the Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition and the Boston Global Forum hosted a roundtable at the Wilson Center, featuring Politburo member Professor Nguyen Xuan Thang and the Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Dung. The event focused on...
European pushback on digital-privacy accord
(April 18th, 2016) European Union privacy regulators want changes to a proposed new EU-U.S. Digital- privacy accord. The Wall Street Journal thinks that this pushback increases the likelihood that the deal will end up challenged in court, leaving “thousands of...
2 key senators back bill to force unlocking of encrypted data
( April 18th, 2016) U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Republican Richard Burr and the panel’s vice chairman, Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, are circulating proposed legislation that would require companies to unlock encrypted data, in, for example, an...
Japanese government spokesman speaks on G7 Summit issues
(April 14th, 2016) The event below will start at 7:30 EDT, April 18. That is a change from April 14 forced by a last-minute urgent meeting between Japanese and Russian diplomatic officials visiting Japan. Yasuhisa Kawamura, Director-General for Press and Public...
U.S. officially launches cyberwar on Islamic State
(April 11st, 2016) The U.S. government has officially announced that it is launching cyberwarfare against the so-called Islamic State, in the first case of the U.S. publicly disclosing cyberattacks in warfare, although it has acted before against U.S. foes with...
BGF’s CEO promotes Global Citizenship at his alma mater
(April 11st, 2016) On March 20, Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO and co-founder of The Boston Global Forum (BGF), gave a keynote speech to help celebrate the 70th anniversary of one of Vietnam’s leading high schools, the Ngo Sy Lien School, in Bac Giang, Vietnam. In the speech,...
Abe says G7 Summit leaders will discuss Ukraine
(April 11st, 2016) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assured visiting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last week that G7 leaders meeting at their summit in Japan on May 26-27 would discuss Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014 and its continuing support of...
