by Editor BGF | Jun 21, 2026 | News
Tokyo 2026: Building Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age
A Report on the Historic Outcomes of Interop Tokyo 2026
SUBMITTED BY BOSTON GLOBAL FORUM ( BGF) · AI WISDOM SOCIETY ( AIWS)
SUBMITTED TO
The Honorable Sanae Takaichi
PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN
Your Excellency,
We are honored to report the successful convening of the Boston Global forum – AIWS Conference at Interop Tokyo 2026 on June 12, 2026. Held at Asia’s most historic and influential technology conference, the event brought together distinguished leaders from government, academia, technology, security, business, and civil society to address one of the defining challenges of our time: how humanity can build trust in increasingly capable and self-improving artificial intelligence systems.
The conference marked a historic transition:
From discussion to implementation. From principles to institutions.
From vision to action.
The conference resulted in five major achievements.
The founding Keynote Address, “Building Trust and Wisdom Infrastructure for Humanity,” presented a comprehensive framework for Trust Infrastructure in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Japan publicly affirmed its readiness to help lead the development of Trust Infrastructure for Humanity through the remarks of Yasuhide Nakayama.
The Tokyo Compact was officially proclaimed as the founding Constitutional Charter of the AIWS Trust Order.
The AIWS Trust Order and its founding Board were established.
The first practical implementation pathway for AIWS Trust Infrastructure in Asia was launched through cooperation between Vietnam Report and the Boston Global forum, under the strategic leadership of Yasuhide Nakayama.
The conference highlighted Japan’s unique capacity to contribute to the governance of the AI Age. Building upon Japan’s leadership in advancing a free and Open Indo-Pacific, the conference demonstrated Japan’s potential role as a leading architect of Trust Infrastructure for the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
The proclamation of the Tokyo Compact in Tokyo, and the launch of implementation initiatives connecting Japan, Vietnam, ASEAN, and the broader Indo-Pacific, represented important first steps toward this vision.
The conference also reflected the continuing leadership of the United States in shaping the future of democratic innovation and responsible technology. The participation and intellectual contributions of distinguished American leaders — including Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Vint Cerf, Alex Pentland, Thomas Patterson, and Tarun Khanna — reinforced the role of the United States as a source of innovation, democratic values, and institutional leadership in the AI Age.
The principles embodied in the Tokyo Compact are deeply aligned with the values of freedom, responsibility, human dignity, and democratic governance that have long helped shape the American experience.
One of the most important outcomes of the conference was that implementation began immediately. On the same day that the world was called to move beyond discussion:
- The Tokyo Compact was
- The AIWS Trust Order was
- Its founding Board was
- The first implementation pathway for AIWS Trust Infrastructure in Asia was
This achievement reflects a central message of the conference:
The time has come not merely to discuss trust.
The time has come to build it.
The Boston Global forum and AIWS respectfully seek continued cooperation with leaders in Japan, the United States, and partner nations to advance:
- AIWS Trust Infrastructure
- AIWS Information Trust Infrastructure
- AIWS Trust Standards
- AIWS Trust Rating (ATR)
- AIWS Trust Index (ATX)
- AIWS Lumina
We believe that trustworthy artificial intelligence will require not only technological innovation, but also enduring institutions, trusted partnerships, and shared democratic values.
Interop Tokyo 2026 demonstrated that humanity can act before crisis. That trust can become infrastructure. That wisdom can guide power. And that democratic societies can work together to shape the future of Artificial Intelligence in service to humanity.
Respectfully submitted,
Governor Michael S. Dukakis
Co-Founder and Chair, Boston Global Forum
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO, Boston Global Forum · Chief Architect, AI Wisdom Society (AIWS)
Please download the Special Report here: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/BGF_Strategic_Report_Tokyo2026_Japan.pdf
by Editor BGF | Jun 21, 2026 | News, Shaping Futures
When the leaders of the world’s most powerful AI laboratories asked Washington to lead — days after Washington had switched their own models off — they confirmed what the AIWS Trust Order argued from the start: the defining challenge of the AI Age ṁ not capability, but trust.
On the final day of the 2026 G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains, france, the chief executives of the three most powerful AI companies on earth sat down to lunch with heads of state. According to reporting by CNBC,
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used the closed-door meeting — joined by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, roughly a dozen other technology leaders, and President Donald Trump alongside G7 counterparts — to call for a United States–led coalition to shape the rules and standards of artificial intelligence.
The specifics were pointed. As CNBC reported, Amodei told the group that international cooperation should include structured access to frontier models and a trade in chips and critical components that excludes China, and that nations should coordinate against the risks of AI in cyber operations, bioterrorism, and intelligence. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was said to agree that the United States could lead such a coalition. Altman, for his part, called for an international forum to establish globally accepted standards for testing advanced systems. No binding commitments emerged.
The Paradox at the Table
What gave the moment its weight was the contradiction beneath it. Amodei’s appeal for American leadership came just five days after the Trump administration forced Anthropic’s most advanced models — fable 5 and Mythos 5 — offline, under sweeping export controls that suspended foreign access on national-security grounds. Anthropic has said it does not believe those restrictions are warranted, and remains in negotiations with the administration.
In other words, the leaders of the frontier laboratories were simultaneously resisting their own government’s controls and proposing that same government to lead the world’s AI order. french President Emmanuel Macron captured the unease, welcoming Washington’s recognition that frontier models can be dangerous while criticizing the export move as “strictly nationalist.” The episode revealed how quickly cooperation can fracture when national security enters the room — and how unsettled the question of trusted access has become.
From Access to Trust
The framework the G7 debated — granting select “trusted partners” access to restricted American models — is, at its core, about access: which nations and companies may use the most advanced systems. It is a narrow, urgent, defensive question, born of a single export-control order.
But access is only half of the problem. To decide who may use frontier AI is to assume an answer to a deeper question: by what standards, under what responsibilities, and with what human oversight? A trusted-partners list can decide who is let in. It cannot, by itself, define what trustworthy AI is. That is the question the world has only now begun to ask aloud — and it is the question the AIWS Trust Order was built to answer.
“A trusted-partners list can decide who ṁ let in. It cannot, by itself, define what trustworthy AI ṁ.”
What the AIWS Trust Order Answers
Months before Évian, the Boston Global forum (BGf) and the AI World Society / AI Wisdom Society (AIWS) had already named trust as the organizing principle of the AI Age — and begun building the architecture for it.
On March 15, 2026, BGf–AIWS released the AIWS Trust Architecture White Paper, introducing AIWS Trust Infrastructure and the AIWS Trust Order. On May 1, 2026, the Boston Global forum convened America at 2/0: A Beacon for the AI Age at Harvard University, gathering AI pioneers, policymakers, scientists, and scholars to advance the architecture of trust. And on June 12, 2026, at Interop Tokyo 2026, BGf–AIWS proclaimed the Tokyo Compact and formally launched the AIWS Trust Order — founded on Trust, Human Dignity, Human Command, Responsibility, Democracy, freedom, and Wisdom.
Where the G7’s trusted-partners discussion approaches AI governance through national security and strategic alliance, the AIWS Trust Order opens the question wider. It asks not only who may access advanced AI, but what must govern it:
- Trust Standards and Trust Ratings to measure and certify trustworthiness;
- Information Trust mechanisms to defend the integrity of what societies know;
- Human Dignity and Human Command as non-negotiable foundations;
- Responsible Governance binding the whole into a common architecture of
This is a vision that reaches beyond nationality and geopolitical alignment toward a universal architecture of trust for humanity — one in which governments, companies, institutions, and citizens all participate.
The Defining Mission
The significance of Évian is not that a coalition was formed — none was. It is that the most powerful builders of intelligence arrived, under pressure, at the very recognition AIWS reached by design: that access without trust is fragile, and that the future of AI will be decided by the institutions, standards, and wisdom we build around it.
As artificial intelligence continues to transform civilization, the builders of intelligence must also become the builders of trust. The future of humanity will depend not only on how powerful AI becomes, but on whether we can establish the trust architecture, institutions, standards, and wisdom necessary to guide that power toward peace, freedom, democracy, human dignity, and the common good.
The rise of trust is no longer a theoretical discussion.
It is becoming the defining mission of the AI Age.
Please download the full article here: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/BGF_Weekly_Shaping_Futures_Anthropic_DeepMind_G7.pdf
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
AIWS Lumina
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.
DOWN LOAD THE TOKYO COMPACT
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
