by Editor BGF | Jan 19, 2026 | News
The AI World Society (AIWS) is a comprehensive civilizational framework for living well with intelligent machines. Its architecture is designed to ensure that artificial intelligence strengthens—rather than weakens—human dignity, democratic governance, trust, creativity, and peace. AIWS is not a single platform or product. It is an integrated system-of-systems that aligns technology, institutions, and culture around one guiding principle: AI must serve people, and people must remain responsible for the future AI helps create.
At the core of AIWS is the Mind–Heart–Wisdom design philosophy:
- Mind: data, evidence, intelligence, prediction, and operational excellence
- Heart: compassion, human rights, mental well-being, culture, faith, and social trust
- Wisdom: long-term responsibility, fairness, sustainability, and ethical restraint
Built on this foundation, the AIWS Architecture links major pillars into a unified whole:
- AIWS Government 24/7: continuous, transparent, human-in-command governance and citizen services
- AIWS Healthcare: holistic care for physical, mental, and emotional health, supported 24/7
- AIWS Education: lifelong learning as joy, supported by an AI companion for growth and character
- AIWS Culture (including AIWS Film Park and AIWS Music for Humanity): uplifting values, creativity, and meaning in the AI Age
- AIWS DASI (Digital Asset Standards Initiative): trust, provenance, and ethical standards for digital assets and data
- AIWS Agents: BAI (Boston Areti AI) for leadership support and AIWS Angel as a kind, protective companion for everyday life
Together, these components form a coherent architecture: AI for better decisions, better services, and better lives—while preserving what makes societies humane. AIWS offers a blueprint for nations, cities, institutions, and communities to modernize rapidly without losing their moral center, and to lead in the AI Age with principles that others can trust and follow.
by Editor BGF | Jan 19, 2026 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
In a letter to UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies Amandeep Singh Gill, Madam Tran Thi Lam, Founder of Hoa Lam Group, shared key outcomes from the conference “Healthcare in the Age of AI” (January 14, 2026), co-organized by Hoa Lam Group and Gia An 115 Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. She noted strong engagement from medical professionals, policymakers, and the scientific community—marking an important milestone in Hoa Lam’s innovation journey.
At the conference, Hoa Lam officially introduced and began implementing the AI World Society (AIWS) Healthcare Model, a pioneering approach designed to apply AI comprehensively in healthcare while keeping human beings at the center, guided by the highest standards of ethics, humanity, and compassion.
Madam Tran Thi Lam also highlighted collaboration with the Boston Global Forum (BGF) to develop a special AI assistant, “Angel for Everyone,” envisioned as a trusted 24/7 companion supporting holistic health—physical, mental, and emotional well-being—and enabling early detection and prevention, including in remote-care settings.
by Editor BGF | Jan 19, 2026 | News
HANOI — January 16, 2026 — The BGF–AIWS Family convened a high-level roundtable titled “Human Health in the AI Age” at the Metropole Hotel, Hanoi, bringing together leaders and experts to advance a human-centered vision for healthcare innovation in the era of artificial intelligence.
The roundtable featured Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, as Keynote Speaker, offering reflections on responsible AI, human-centered digital transformation, and global well-being. The program also included remarks by Madam Tran Thi Lam, Founder of Hoa Lam Group, highlighting Hoa Lam’s pioneering efforts to deploy the AIWS Healthcare Model—a comprehensive approach that applies AI deeply in healthcare while placing ethics, compassion, and the dignity of every patient at the center.
The session was moderated by Nguyen Anh Tuan, Global Governance Architect; Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of the Boston Global Forum (BGF); and Creator of the AI World Society (AIWS). He presented the core principles and architecture of the AIWS Healthcare Model and the role of AIWS Angel—a compassionate AI companion designed to support physical, mental, and emotional well-being 24/7, while reinforcing trust, consent, and human responsibility.
Discussions focused on practical pathways for AI-enabled healthcare systems that can deliver faster prevention and early intervention, strengthen mental health and emotional balance, empower families and communities, and ensure rigorous ethical governance. The roundtable marked another milestone in the BGF–AIWS Family’s broader effort to build a healthier, more humane society in the AI Age—where advanced technology serves people and helps every community flourish.
by Editor BGF | Jan 11, 2026 | News
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Global Governance Architect; Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) will deliver a featured presentation at the conference “Healthcare in the AI Age,” hosted by Madam Tran Thi Lam, Founder of Hoa Lam Group, at Hoa Lam Gia An 115 in Ho Chi Minh City on January 14, 2026.
The program is expected to convene leaders and representatives from Vietnam’s health sector, distinguished international and Vietnamese healthcare experts, and members of the BGF–AIWS Family, including Glen Weyl and Harvard Professor Alisha Holland.
In his keynote, Nguyen Anh Tuan will introduce the AIWS Healthcare Model—a human-centered framework that redefines healthcare in the AI Age “not as a system that reacts to illness,” but as a civilizational approach that helps people live healthier, more peaceful, more dignified, and more meaningful lives, integrating physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being 24/7 across the lifespan.
He will highlight the model’s paradigm shift from episodic, hospital-centered, efficiency-first care toward continuous 24/7, whole-human, dignity-first, human-led AI.
The presentation will also outline the proposed AIWS Healthcare Architecture—spanning a Data & Life Context layer, an AI Intelligence layer (predictive, preventive, mental & emotional well-being, personalized care, and ethics & safety), a Human Care & Governance layer (including clinicians, psychologists, spiritual counselors, ethicists, and family/community support networks), and an Experience & Companionship layer designed around a kind, human-facing health companion.
A central element is the AIWS Healthcare Companion (“AI Angel for Health”), designed to monitor health continuously, detect early warning signals, reduce stress and anxiety, support emotional balance, respect faith and sacred values, and escalate to human care when needed—“a good, kind, and ethical companion—not a controller.”
The conference will also discuss governance safeguards to prevent the dark side of AI in healthcare—rejecting over-commercialization, dehumanization, data exploitation, and algorithmic decisions without human responsibility—anchored by the guiding question: does this deployment make life healthier, kinder, and more meaningful?
This event continues the momentum of Vietnam’s post-London implementation dialogue and advances the AIWS commitment to a healthcare future where AI accelerates care without sacrificing human dignity, compassion, and trust.
Please see full here: https://bostonglobalforum.org/publication/aiws-healthcare-whitepaper/
by Editor BGF | Jan 11, 2026 | News
As part of America at 250 – A Beacon for the AI Age, we propose America Civic Voice (ACV)—a national civic writing and listening network designed to protect free expression with responsibility and transform citizens’ lived experience into policy-relevant signals. As a civic companion to AIWS Government 24/7, ACV provides a constructive channel for testimony, community reports, solution sketches, and evidence—then synthesizes that input into explainable briefs, early warnings, and priority maps for leaders and institutions. ACV is built with constitutional safeguards, transparent standards, and an appeals process to prevent doxxing, incitement, manipulation, and dehumanization. It restores trust by closing the loop: “We heard you → Here’s what changed.” Integrated with large-scale deliberation approaches associated with MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland (BGF Board Member), ACV strengthens public reasoning—surfacing common ground, clarifying tradeoffs, and accelerating meaningful governance outcomes—so that America’s 250th anniversary becomes a launchpad for democratic renewal in the AI Age.
Please see full here: https://bostonglobalforum.org/publication/america-civic-voice-acv/
by Editor BGF | Jan 11, 2026 | Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security, News
When a Japanese prime minister dissolves the House of Representatives, history is made—because the act is not only procedural, but philosophical. It is a choice to “reset” political legitimacy by asking the public for a renewed mandate, often under intense pressure and uncertainty. Past leaders have framed dissolution as a test of confidence and direction—turning parliamentary mechanics into a national referendum on leadership and strategy.
For the Shinzo Abe legacy, this moment carries special weight. Abe’s dissolutions—most famously in 2014—were used to seek public judgment on major national course corrections, including the economic program known as “Abenomics.” His approach established a modern template: decisive moves, high stakes, and an appeal to voters to legitimize a strategic agenda.
Now, as Japan enters the Sanae Takaichi era, the same instrument can become either a democratic accelerant—or a destabilizing gamble. The political environment surrounding her rise has already underscored how coalition arithmetic and public trust can quickly become defining constraints.
For BGF’s Shinzo Abe Initiative, the key question is not only whether dissolution is “for better or worse,” but whether it advances Abe’s deeper vision: openness, rule-based governance, and democratic credibility under geopolitical stress. In the AI Age, legitimacy must be earned faster—but also more transparently, more ethically, and with stronger civic trust.
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/politics-government/20260110-303272/
by Editor BGF | Jan 11, 2026 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
LOS ANGELES – January 6, 2026 by Nick Patsaouras
The UCLA premiere of “Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy,” a short documentary directed by Erin Trahan and Jeff Schmidt, offers film audiences a profound opportunity to reflect on a familiar figure in public life—Governor Michael Dukakis. The film presents him not as a campaign artifact of the past, but as a vibrant, continuing presence in our global civic fabric.
A Legacy in Action
The screening at UCLA is particularly fitting. Universities are places where ideas are tested over time, and where the value of a leader’s experience is weighed not by electoral outcomes alone, but by the habits of thought and action a life leaves behind.
Today, that legacy is more active than ever. As the Co-founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum (BGF), Governor Dukakis has transitioned from state leadership to global stewardship, guiding the development of the AI World Society (AIWS) and a New Social Contract for the AI Age.
Democracy as a Practice
The documentary captures Dukakis in his later years: teaching, walking his neighborhood, and making soup. The central metaphor—democracy as something that must be tended, prepared patiently, and shared—works because it is understated. It reminds us that democracy is not a spectacle, but a practice sustained by participation and care.
Governor Dukakis applies this same “patient tending” to the future of technology. As the Co-author of the landmark initiative and book, “America at 250: A Beacon for the AI Age,” he bridges the fundamental values of the American Revolution with the complexities of the 21st century. His work emphasizes that for AI to flourish, it must be anchored in the democratic principles of transparency, accountability, and human rights.
Consistency Over Calculation
For the Greek-American audience, and for a broader public concerned with the character of civic life, Michael Dukakis stands as an example of a life lived with consistency rather than calculation. He has remained “legible”—transparent and accessible—to supporters, critics, and students alike.
Whether he is teaching a class at UCLA or Northeastern, or chairing a global forum on AI ethics in Boston, his message remains the same: public service is fundamental to our life as a community.
Honoring the Future
In observing Dukakis, we honor something larger: the idea that democracy, like any enduring human project, is sustained by those willing to care for it over time. Through his leadership at the Boston Global Forum and his vision for America at 250, Governor Dukakis continues to prove that the “recipe” for democracy is an evolving one—one that now requires the integration of humanity’s quintessence with the power of Artificial Intelligence.
Ask yourself: what does each one of us have to offer to this changing theater of politics and technology? In Michael Dukakis, we find a steady, guiding light.
https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/screening-of-award-winning-short-documentary-dukakis-recipe-for-democracy-directed-by-erin-trahan-and-jeff-schmidt/
by Editor BGF | Jan 11, 2026 | News
On the morning of January 8, 2026, at the Grand Hall of Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), the university collaborated with VLAB Innovation and VietNamNet Newspaper to organize the seminar “Dialogue on AI World Society – Opportunities and Solutions for Vietnam.”
The event aimed to exchange and clarify core societal issues in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), ranging from development opportunities and innovation to challenges in governance, ethics, and social impact.
The seminar brought together numerous domestic and international experts, including: Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan – CEO of the Boston Global Forum (BGF); Dr. Glen Weyl – Founder of the Plurality Institute and Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University; Mr. Nguyen Song Nam – CEO of VLAB Innovation; along with representatives from various organizations and students interested in the field of AI.
In his opening remarks, Professor Vu Van Yem – Vice President of Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) – affirmed that the seminar is deeply topical and strategic, addressing a core question: As AI becomes increasingly ubiquitous, how can we ensure this technology promotes human dignity, accountability, and collective prosperity instead of undermining those values?
From the perspective of a leading technical and technological university, the Vice President of HUST emphasized that the university’s responsibility extends beyond training human resources; it also includes contributing to the system of standards, solutions, and AI development orientations based on scientific evidence.
According to Prof. Vu Van Yem, HUST is currently implementing three strategic focuses to adapt to the AI era.
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan – CEO of the Boston Global Forum – delivered a presentation titled “AI World Society and Opportunities for Vietnam.”
Mr. Tuan noted that HUST’s approach to AI aligns with the direction of the “AI World Society” — a concept featured in the book “AI World Society: 30-Year U.S.-Vietnam Partnership, from Nha Trang to Boston (1995-2025),” co-authored by Harvard Professor Thomas E. Patterson and himself.
He also shared a personal story about his journey with technology, expressing his belief that Vietnam should not merely follow and learn but must aim for innovation and create products with a global impact. According to Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Vietnam has an opportunity to realize new ideas for an AI social model when higher education institutions, prominently HUST, pioneer the transformation of vision into practice.
Please read the full article regarding this event on the Hanoi University of Science and Technology website at the following link:
https://hust.edu.vn/vi/news/khoa-hoc-cong-nghe-dmst/co-hoi-phat-trien-mo-hinh-xa-hoi-tri-tue-nhan-tao-cho-viet-nam-655757.html
by Editor BGF | Jan 11, 2026 | News, Shaping Futures
General Agents has introduced Ace, a real-time “computer pilot” designed to operate across everyday software interfaces the way a human would—seeing the screen, navigating menus, and executing multi-step tasks directly through the user interface rather than relying only on APIs. This approach signals a major shift from “chat-based assistance” to autonomous action on the digital desktop—where speed, reliability, and safety become decisive. (SiliconANGLE)
In reporting on the agentic-computing race, WIRED highlighted Ace’s standout advantage: extremely low latency. Harsha Abegunasekara, CEO of a competing startup, credited General Agents with “cracking” speed—calling Ace “light speed” and noting rivals had not matched it despite months of work. (WIRED)
For BGF–AIWS, Ace illustrates both promise and urgency. “Action AI” can dramatically accelerate productivity—reducing friction in administration, operations, and service delivery. But as agents gain the power to do, not just suggest, governance must evolve: audit logs, per missioning, abuse prevention, transparency, and human responsibility must be designed in from day one.
This is where AIWS principles matter: an AIWS Angel should not merely act fast—it should act ethically, explainable, and in service of human dignity. Ace is a glimpse of the near future; AIWS is the blueprint for ensuring that future remains trustworthy.
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-new-ai-company-acquired-agentic-computing-startup/
