by Editor BGF | Jun 15, 2026 | News
On June 12, 2026, at Interop Tokyo 2026, global leaders moved the challenge of trustworthy AI from debate to design. The day brought the proclamation of the Tokyo Compact — the world’s first constitutional charter for trustworthy AI — the launch of the AIWS Trust Order and its founding Board, and the first enterprise program to put Trust Infrastructure into practice across Asia, with Vietnam Report as its first implementation partner. In his Founding Keynote, “Building Trust and Wisdom Infrastructure for Humanity,” Nguyen Anh Tuan affirmed the principle of Trust Supremacy — “Trust must lead. Wisdom must guide.”
Japan’s leadership was central to the day: the Tokyo Compact was proclaimed by Yasuhide Nakayama, former State Minister and Member of the House of Representatives, joined by General Koji Yamazaki, former Chief of Staff of the Japan Self-Defense Forces; Masaaki Taira, former Minister for Digital Transformation; and Yasuaki Oshima of the Interop Tokyo Executive Committee — alongside international figures including Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Vint Cerf, Alex Pentland, Thomas Patterson, and Tarun Khanna.
Read the full Conference Report: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/The_Tokyo_Compact_Charter_EN-12-6-1.pdf
by Editor BGF | Jun 15, 2026 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
On June 12, 2026, at Interop Tokyo 2026 — among the largest and most influential technology gatherings in Asia — The Tokyo Compact: Founding Constitutional Charter of the AIWS Trust Order was officially proclaimed by Yasuhide Nakayama, Member of the House of Representatives of Japan, former State Minister, and Head of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Global South Strategy Headquarters.
The proclamation marked a historic milestone in the global effort to build Trust and Wisdom Infrastructure for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Presented before an international gathering of leaders from government, academia, technology, security, business, and civil society, the Tokyo Compact established a new constitutional framework for the AI Age, founded upon five core principles:
Human Dignity
Trust Infrastructure
Trust Supremacy
Human Command over Self-Improving Intelligence
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The event brought together prominent leaders including Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Vint Cerf, Alex Pentland, Thomas Patterson, Tarun Khanna, General Koji Yamazaki, Masaaki Taira, Yossi Katribas, Yasuaki Oshima, and other distinguished participants from Japan, the United States, Vietnam, and the international community.
As the Founding Constitutional Charter of the AIWS Trust Order, the Tokyo Compact calls upon governments, universities, technology companies, media organizations, civil society institutions, and citizens worldwide to work together in building trustworthy artificial intelligence guided by human dignity, responsibility, trust, and wisdom.
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The full text of the Tokyo Compact is now open to the world. Read, download, and share the Founding Constitutional Charter of the AIWS Trust Order at: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/The_Tokyo_Compact_Charter_EN-12-6-1.pdf
by Editor BGF | Jun 15, 2026 | News, Shaping Futures
Defending Truth, Building Trust: An Information Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age Professor Thomas Patterson — Harvard Kennedy School
At Interop Tokyo 2026, Professor Thomas Patterson warned that the gravest threat of the AI age is not any single deepfake, but the gradual erosion of public trust. His answer is a governance-driven framework in which AI assists human judgment rather than replacing it — built on human-in-the-loop oversight, nuanced trust ratings in place of blunt true-or-false labels, and transparent guardrails that protect against both deception and censorship. AI can speed our response, he concluded — but only good governance can keep truth trustworthy. It is precisely this conviction that animates the AIWS Information Trust Infrastructure — a founding pillar of the AIWS Trust Order proclaimed in the Tokyo Compact.
▶ Watch the address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x4ehpKVFAU
by Editor BGF | Jun 15, 2026 | Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security, News
Yasuhide Nakayama, Member of the House of Representatives of Japan and Director of Global South Affairs of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), affirmed in his address at the BGF–AIWS Conference at Interop Tokyo 2026 that Japan is ready to take a leading role in the global effort to build Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age—ensuring that artificial intelligence advances human dignity, freedom, democracy, and peace.
A strong supporter of the AIWS Trust Order and the Tokyo Compact, Nakayama emphasized Japan’s unique responsibility to contribute its values, experience, and leadership to shaping a trustworthy future for humanity. He also underscored Japan’s readiness to work with international partners to advance trusted AI governance and strengthen global cooperation in the AI era.
Download the full remarks by Yasuhide Nakayama below: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Nakayama_Tokyo_Remarks_EN.pdf
by Editor BGF | Jun 15, 2026 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland · BGF Conference at Interop Tokyo 2026
Addressing the BGF Conference at Interop Tokyo 2026, Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland — of MIT and Stanford, a board member of the Boston Global Forum, and honored among the fifty America 250: AI Pioneers — set out the foundations of trustworthy artificial intelligence. Drawing on his research, he argued that trust rests on three questions that grow urgent as autonomous AI agents begin to act on our behalf: identity — who, or what, are you truly dealing with, and where did it come from; permission — how others can verify that a human genuinely authorized an action, and meant it; and predictability — how to ensure a system does what is expected, rather than something unbounded. These are no longer academic concerns, he stressed, but immediate priorities for finance, trade, health, and security — the sectors where trust must be established before AI can be safely embraced. Citing the recent United States–China agreement to develop joint guidelines for safe trade, Pentland observed that nations are awakening to the need for shared standards of trusted AI. Already working with major financial institutions across the United States, the European Union, the Middle East, India, and Singapore, he invited Japan and its leading companies to build those standards together. Those very standards lie at the heart of the AIWS Trust Infrastructure and AIWS Trust Standards — the architecture of the AIWS Trust Order proclaimed in the Tokyo Compact.
▶ Watch the address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZAGnstcZVc
