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
Indo-Pacific for Peace, Love, and Innovation in the AI Age
On September 2, 2024, Mark Kennedy, Director of the Wilson Center's Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition, and Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum, will co-moderate a Roundtable of the Indo-Pacific Spark Initiative. Titled "Indo-Pacific for Peace, Love,...
Knowledge Platform for AI: Insights from Professor Nazli Choucri
At the Boston Global Forum conference "Governing the Future: AI, Democracy and Humanity" on April 30, 2024, Harvard University's Loeb House, MIT Professor Nazli Choucri, BGF Board Member, emphasized the growing importance of knowledge in the era of Artificial...
Contributing new values in AIWS – the Age of Global Enlightenment to several US National Parks
AIWS City has planned to contribute new values in AIWS - the Age of Global Enlightenment to several US national parks, including Grand Canyon, Zion, Capitol Reef, Yellowstone, and Acadia, an important link between the aspects of nature, respect for nature, and AI...
Nguyen Anh Tuan and Ramu Damodaran spoke at the launch of the book “AI in the Age of Global Enlightenment”
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum, the editor of the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”, and Ramu Damodaran, Co-chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative, spoke at the launch of the book “AI in the Age of Global...
Ethics Code of Conduct for Cyber Peace and Security and Combating Disinformation in the Age of Global Enlightenment
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, will speak at the International Scientific Conference Preventing and Handling Online Fake News – Theory and Practice, chaired by Vietnam Ministry of Public Security’s Theorical Council, March 2, 2023, in Vietnam. He...
30 historical figures in building AIWS — the Age of Global Enlightenment
In celebration of the 90th birthday of former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) has introduced 30 historical figures who have played a key role in building AIWS - The Age of Global Enlightenment. The theme for this year's...
Statement of Global Enlightenment Leaders addressing Putin to end the war with Ukraine
Boston, MA, February 24, 2023, The Global Enlightenment Leaders of the Boston Global Forum are still deeply concerned about the ongoing war in Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused immeasurable suffering to the Ukrainian people and has resulted in the...
Notes from Jürgen Schmidhuber’s talk at History of AI Roundtable
Jürgen Schmidhuber is a leading researcher in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and is often referred to as the "father of neural networks." He is renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to deep learning, which have had a profound impact on the...