by Editor BGF | Oct 13, 2026 | News
On November 10, 2026, BGF organizes Conference 2026 at Loeb House, Harvard University: “New Civilization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Human–AI Co-Creation.” From now on, BGF conferences advance the implementation of initiatives, bringing together scholars, thinkers, and those who carry ideas into practice.
Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and recipient of the U.S. National Medal of Science and the 2026 Japan Prize, receives the World Leader in AIWS Award 2026. She joins the panel on the AIWS Trust Observatory with David Bray of the Stimson Center and Jeffrey Saviano of MIT Sloan.
The Constitution for Humanity in the Age of AI is debated by:
- Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School
- Egils Levits, former President of Latvia and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union
- Paul Nemitz, former Principal Adviser at the European Commission
The panel is moderated by Zlatko Lagumdzija, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, launches the building of AIWS Civilization. David Silbersweig, Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, announces The Human–AI Co-Creation Atlas.
→ Read the Concept Note
by Editor BGF | Oct 13, 2026 | Papers & Reports, News, Publications
Boston Global Forum and AIWS present Beacon Papers No. 15, “The Human Advancement Test: How Human–AI Co-Creation Advances Humanity,” by Nguyen Anh Tuan, Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS and Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum.
AI can make the work better while the person doing it grows weaker, and nothing in the output reveals it.
Beacon Papers No. 15 answers with the Human Advancement Test (HAT): a practical standard, originated at AIWS Lumina Lab, to show whether working with AI makes people more capable. HAT helps people advance their intelligence throughout life, with the help of AI Assistants. Through six dimensions, from deeper understanding to greater love for people and nature, and a ready-to-use template, every person and institution can begin now.
“Measure the person, not the output. Test what grows, with AI and without it. Record what has grown.”
Download Beacon Papers No. 15 and take the Human Advancement Test: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Beacon_Papers_No15_The_Human_Advancement_Test_EN.pdf
by Editor BGF | Oct 13, 2026 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Harvard scientist honored for foundational contributions to privacy and fairness in the AI Age
Award to be presented on November 10 at Loeb House, Harvard University
BOSTON, October 12, 2026 — The Boston Global Forum (BGF) and AIWS announce Professor Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as the recipient of the World Leader in AIWS Award 2026, for her foundational contributions to differential privacy and algorithmic fairness.
Since 2018, the award has honored one leader each year: José Ángel Gurría (2018), Vint Cerf (2019), Judea Pearl (2020), Stavros Lambrinidis (2021), Amandeep Singh Gill (2022), Sanae Takaichi (2023), now Prime Minister of Japan, Alondra Nelson (2024), and Audrey Tang (2025).
The award will be presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at Loeb House, Harvard University, during the BGF Conference 2026, “New Civilization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Human–AI Co-Creation.” Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of BGF, will present the award; Nguyen Anh Tuan will deliver the citation; and Professor Dwork will give an acceptance address. She will also join the AIWS Trust Observatory panel, moderated by Professor Thomas Patterson of Harvard Kennedy School.
Dwork’s work with collaborators established differential privacy, a mathematical framework for analyzing data while limiting what an analysis reveals about any individual. Her contributions to algorithmic fairness help define how automated decisions can treat people equitably. BGF–AIWS sees this work as essential to AIWS Trust Infrastructure: turning commitments to protect people into methods that can be examined and tested.
“A civilization worthy of the AI Age must be able to explain how it protects each human being,” said Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum, and Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS. “Cynthia Dwork’s work gives us rigorous ways to address that responsibility. We honor her for scientific achievements that help make privacy and fairness part of technology’s foundations, and for their enduring value to humanity.”
Her honors include the U.S. National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest scientific honor, presented by the President; the 2017 Gödel Prize; and the 2026 Japan Prize. On May 1, 2026, at the America at 250 Conference at Loeb House, Harvard University, Nguyen Anh Tuan presented her with the America 250: AI Pioneers Award, and she delivered the acceptance remarks on behalf of the honorees.
About Boston Global Forum and AIWS
The Boston Global Forum brings together leaders, scholars, and innovators to address global challenges. AIWS, founded in 2017, advances AIWS Civilization — the Civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation — through AIWS Trust Infrastructure, the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of AI, and AIWS Lumina, guided by the values of Love, Creativity, Nobility, and Wisdom.
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Cynthia Dwork, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, 2024, credit Eliza Grinnell
by Editor BGF | Oct 13, 2026 | News
Every civilization leaves a record of what its people create, discover, and become. As AI reshapes human life, the Boston Global Forum is establishing The Human–AI Co-Creation Atlas, the first Atlas of the Civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation: its archive, its history, and its public record.
The Atlas documents the people, programs, values, events, and works shaping this emerging civilization across science, technology, culture, business, governance, education, health, and the environment. Its scope is global, welcoming achievements from every nation and tradition, whether or not they are connected to AIWS.
At its heart is a principle: the Atlas records what humanity has made with AI, and what people have become in making it. It looks for lasting significance, human authorship and responsibility, demonstrable human advancement, and service to humanity. Every entry must be grounded in sources and remain open to correction.
The AIWS Human–AI Co-Creation Movement holds a central place within the Atlas. Participants’ Elevation Stories and the work of Elevate Circles will document what people did, what AI contributed, how human capabilities grew, and what benefits reached others. These experiences give the emerging civilization a human face and a record that others can learn from.
The Atlas’s Founding Board is led by Honorary Chair Governor Michael S. Dukakis and Chair Nguyen Anh Tuan. Scholars, students, artists, entrepreneurs, and institutions worldwide are invited to propose entries, contribute sources, and help connect achievements across disciplines and generations.
Within AIWS Civilization, the Atlas preserves the evidence of a future being built through human purpose, creativity, and responsibility. The Atlas will be presented in full at BGF Conference 2026 on November 10 at Loeb House, Harvard University.
by Editor BGF | Oct 13, 2026 | Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security, News
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) plans to participate in SusHi Tech Tokyo 2027, presenting AIWS Civilization — a vision for Human–AI Co-Creation — as part of the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security.
BGF’s participation is being coordinated by Yasuhide Nakayama, Member of Japan’s House of Representatives, a member of BGF’s Board of Directors, BGF’s Representative in Japan and Taiwan, and Coordinator of the Shinzo Abe Initiative.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2027 takes place May 20–22, 2027, at Tokyo Big Sight, with two business days followed by a public day. This year the event centers on what humans should be in the age of AI transformation.
BGF aims to answer that question with AIWS Civilization: people who remain in command of AI and grow in judgment, creativity, and dignity. It will introduce AIWS Trust Infrastructure, Human–AI Co-Creation, and AIWS Lumina, founded on the values of Love, Creativity, Nobility, and Wisdom.
The groundwork was laid on March 31, 2026, when Nguyen Anh Tuan and Yasuhide Nakayama met Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and proposed AIWS Trust Infrastructure, AIWS Trust Order, and AIWS Lumina for SusHi Tech Tokyo 2027.
Through this engagement, the Shinzo Abe Initiative connects Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s legacy of leadership and international cooperation with the responsibilities of the AI Age: building trust, protecting human dignity, and enabling people and nations to co-create a peaceful and prosperous future.
For further information, visit the official SusHi Tech Tokyo 2027 website.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Yasuhide Nakayama, Member of Japan’s House of Representatives and Coordinator of the Shinzo Abe Initiative
by Editor BGF | Oct 13, 2026 | News, Shaping Futures
On October 6, OpenAI posted 722 mathematical manuscripts produced by an unreleased internal model, which the company says represent progress on 372 open problems. Only 162 came with main results checked in the Lean proof assistant. Within a day, three were withdrawn after a sign error broke one argument and two that depended on it. OpenAI acknowledged that many of the results are not yet understood by its own mathematicians.
A month earlier, on September 4, Anthropic reported that Claude, working largely autonomously for 11 days by the company’s account, had formalized Fermat’s Last Theorem in about 13 million lines of Lean. The code was released for inspection; it is machine-checkable, not a proof a human can read.
Two releases, two answers to the same new fact: machines can now produce mathematics faster than humans can referee it. One released claims ahead of verification; the other released verification that no person can read through.
The deeper question concerns humanity, not the machines. A result proven by a machine becomes humanity’s knowledge only when people can understand it, explain it, and build on it. This is the principle of Beacon Papers No. 15, The Human Advancement Test: better output does not, by itself, demonstrate human advancement. As discovery accelerates, the measure of progress is not how many theorems machines produce, but how much human understanding grows with them.
→ Read: Beacon Papers No. 15 — The Human Advancement Test
by Editor BGF | Oct 13, 2026 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
In a BBC interview published October 12, Microsoft President Brad Smith called for an international framework of AI safety rules, observing that milk and washing machines face more oversight than artificial intelligence. His proposals:
- independent evaluation of frontier models before release
- mandatory reporting of AI incidents
- a duty to notify organizations breached by rogue AI agents
- an emergency brake to pause systems that go wrong
Two days earlier, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella urged companies to treat AI models as insiders that may be compromised, and to keep the power to stop them mid-task in human hands.
These remain calls for policy, not rules in force. The Boston Global Forum welcomes them. When the leaders of one of the world’s largest AI companies ask for binding safeguards, the question is no longer whether such rules are needed, but how they will work.
The AIWS Trust Order, initiated by BGF through the Tokyo Compact at Interop Tokyo on June 12, 2026, already sets out that architecture:
- an AI Incident Exchange for reporting
- an Emergency Protocol
- a Designated Human Answerer who holds the authority to stop a system and answers for it
- the AIWS Trust Observatory for independent evaluation and early warning, grounded in society’s right to know
→ Read: Beacon Papers No. 12, The AI Race Needs a Trust Order, and No. 13, AI Power Must Not Operate Unseen
by Editor BGF | Oct 5, 2026 | News, Shaping Futures
Work can be delegated. Answerability cannot.
At DevDay on September 29, 2026, OpenAI introduced agents that can take on ongoing responsibilities. It also opened ChatGPT as a shared surface where people and agents work together, reaching some 1.2 billion users each week.
The shift is not in capability but in role. Until now, AI performed tasks: a person asked, and the system answered. Now AI begins to hold responsibilities that continue after the person has turned away. This changes the question humanity must ask.
A responsibility that runs over time must be defined before it begins: who granted it, what it covers, and when it ends. This is the constitutional mandate set out in Beacon Papers No. 11, No Power Without a Mandate. Every consequential action taken under it must also lead to a human being who can be called to account. That is the principle of Beacon Papers No. 10, No AI Agent Without Identity: no consequential AI action without a human answerer.
As AI moves from answering requests to carrying responsibilities, the measure of progress is whether human answerability keeps pace.
Read OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 recap →
by Editor BGF | Oct 5, 2026 | Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security, News
On September 29, 2026, the White House released the Accord on Super Intelligence, a short joint commitment signed by the President and by leaders of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Nvidia. Companies training and deploying frontier models agreed to four layers of controls and audits: internal monitoring of capabilities and alignment, with attention to cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats; an internal team to verify that those controls work; independent external auditors; and an independent committee of the board to receive reports and require corrections. The text notes that, over time, these steps may be written into law.
The Accord is a meaningful commitment. Every layer, however, is organized by the companies themselves, and the text does not say who may stop a system, or who must answer to the public when a control fails.
On June 12 at Interop Tokyo, Yasuhide Nakayama proclaimed the Tokyo Compact, the founding constitutional charter of the AIWS Trust Order. Its principles begin with Human Responsibility and Meaningful Human Command and Human Dignity as the Supreme Standard, and include Trust as the Infrastructure of the AI Age, Trust Supremacy, and Human Command over Self-Improving Intelligence. It requires independent verification bodies protected from commercial and political pressure. It establishes the Trusted Pause: a pre-agreed, voluntary mechanism through which trusted partners may coordinate a temporary halt to training, scaling, or deployment, pending verification, when a frontier system threatens to exceed its verified capability limits in an uncontrolled manner or to defeat the safeguards of human command.
This distinction gives the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security a concrete task in the AI Age: advancing a free and open order through trust infrastructure and meaningful human command. Prime Minister Abe received the World Leaders Award for Peace and Security on December 12, 2015, and the Initiative that bears his name carries forward work on cybersecurity, AI and digital governance, and a free and open order. That order cannot rest on corporate commitments alone.
The Accord records what firms will do inside their own walls. The Tokyo Compact builds what must stand outside them.
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