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 Enlightenment Leaders contribute to Japan’s Economy
The upcoming Shinzo Abe Initiative Conference on April 5, 2023, in Tokyo will showcase a special report titled "Make the Economy of Japan Great in the Age of Global Enlightenment." The report aims to address the challenges faced by the Japanese economy in the current...
Coalition for Collective Intelligence Commons (CCIC)
John Clippinger - Co-founder of BioForm Labs At a time of profound threats to the biosphere, democratic institutions and global stability, scientifically informed perspectives and policies are needed to counter conspiratorial narratives and outright distrust in...
Japan is divided over making changes to pacifist constitution
(Photo Credit: Japan Daily Press) (BGF) - On Sunday, May 4, 2014 The Boston Globe picked up a story from the Associated Press discussing the debate in Japan about revising the Japanese constitution. Current Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been pushing to revise...
America Should Step Back from the East China Sea Dispute
(BGF) - Late last month Xu Xinbo wrote an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times in which he argued that the United States should allow Japan and China to resolve the territorial dispute on their own. U.S. action, such as reaffirming the U.S.-Japan security treaty, Xinbo...
Japan to conduct island defense drill amid tension with China
(Photo Credit: AP) (BGF) - According to Reuters, in an article picked up by DNAIndia.com, Japan will host a military exercise from May 10 to May 27. The exercise is designed to provide practice defending an island and will take place on an uninhabited island in...
On a Trip That Avoids Beijing, Obama Keeps His Eye on China
(Photo Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) (BGF) - Recently Mark Landler, writing for The New York Times, discussed President Obama's trip to Asia in light of the U.S. relations with China. As Landler notes in the article, President Obama's comments on the...
Pacific Rim Deal Could Reduce Chance of Unintended Conflict in Contested Seas
(Photo Credit: Kyodo News via AP) (BGF) - On April 23, 2014 The New York Times reported on a recent deal, the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea, endorsed by the United States, Japan, and China. The Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea is a non-binding protocol that...
April 24th Conference Briefing
(From Left to Right: Professor Ezra Vogel, Governor Michael Dukakis, Professor John Quelch) (BGF) - On April 24, 2014 Boston Global Forum (BGF) held a successful online, international conference addressing the conflict between Japan and China, how to resolve the...