by Editor BGF | Oct 19, 2026 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Peace requires the ability to protect people while diplomacy seeks a durable settlement. That responsibility was central to the October 15 meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Brussels, on the sidelines of the European Council.
Following their talks, Macron reaffirmed France’s support for Ukraine and called for providing the means to defend its population and civilian infrastructure, including help through a winter in which strikes on Ukraine’s energy system threaten millions of families with the loss of heat and electricity. Zelenskyy said France is helping as much as it can to find ways to respond to Russian escalation. He announced new packages to strengthen Ukraine’s combat aviation this month, and thanked France for delivering all the weapons-production licenses it had promised.
For the Boston Global Forum, the meeting brings together two leaders whose responsibilities for peace have been recognized through its World Leader for Peace and Security Award. Macron received the honor in 2024; Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people were honored in 2022.
That recognition carries a continuing expectation: leadership must translate commitments into protection for people, respect for sovereignty, and credible prospects for a lasting peace.
The Brussels meeting illustrates the work that must follow public declarations of solidarity. Diplomatic engagement and practical support need to reinforce one another. A population exposed to attack needs protection today, alongside a future in which it can rebuild and determine its own course.
BGF’s perspective remains grounded in human dignity: peace must allow people to live without domination and possess the means to build a worthwhile future. International leadership is tested by its ability to make those conditions possible.
by Editor BGF | Oct 19, 2026 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
Independent AI evaluation depends on two freedoms: the ability to examine evidence and the ability to publish conclusions—even when a developer finds them uncomfortable.
On October 15, Anthropic announced that six researchers from METR, the nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research, had received company hardware, office space, and access to internal systems broadly comparable to its own risk assessment teams. Certain categories remain restricted, including customer data, privileged legal material, and model architecture information.
The publication terms are especially significant. Anthropic says it cannot veto METR’s publications, although it can require redactions within predefined categories. Anthropic ultimately determines whether information falls within those categories, but METR may publicly characterize any redactions and state whether it considers them justified. The arrangement therefore expands scrutiny while leaving important boundaries under company control.
BGF’s perspective is that access must become a dependable basis for accountability. A credible evaluation system needs clarity about what evaluators could inspect, what remained unavailable, and how those limits affect their conclusions. Readers should be able to distinguish a finding supported by broad evidence from one constrained by a narrow window into the system.
This is directly relevant to the AIWS Trust Observatory, which BGF will present at Loeb House, Harvard University, on November 10. Its work should help make the quality of oversight visible: the scope of access, evaluator independence, publication rights, unresolved disagreements, and the developer’s response to identified risks.
Anthropic’s initiative creates an opportunity to advance that standard. The decisive question is what happens when evaluators reach a conclusion that challenges the company’s preferred course.
Trust grows when independent scrutiny can change decisions—and when the public can see why.
by Editor BGF | Oct 18, 2026 | Papers & Reports, News, Publications
What happens when AI discovers faster than humanity can understand?
In Beacon Papers No.16, Nguyen Anh Tuan addresses a foundational question for civilization: how can AI-generated discoveries become knowledge that humanity can truly understand, question, and pass on?
The paper proposes a Path to Understanding for consequential AI discoveries and introduces Co-Understanding—Human–AI Co-Creation in which AI helps people understand what it has found. Its Inheritance Test asks whether the next generation will be able to understand, challenge, and surpass what we create today.
The principle is clear: “A machine may find it. Humanity must understand it. The next generation must be able to surpass it.”
Read Beacon Papers No.16 to explore this vision for AIWS Civilization.
by Editor BGF | Oct 18, 2026 | News
Egils Levits, President of Latvia (2019–2023) and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union, will be a Special Speaker at the Boston Global Forum Conference, New Civilization in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Human–AI Co-Creation, at Loeb House, Harvard University, on November 10, 2026.
Few leaders have shaped constitutions from so many sides. President Levits contributed to Latvia’s 1990 declaration of restored independence. He co-authored the Preamble to the Constitution of Latvia, adopted in 2014. He also served for nearly a quarter-century as a European judge, first at the European Court of Human Rights (1995–2004) and then at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2004–2019).
At the Conference, he will speak in Panel II, Constitution for Humanity in the Age of AI. He will also take part in shaping the Constitution itself, ahead of its proclamation at Loeb House on April 27, 2027. In particular, he will help address a question no constitution has faced before: how principles of human dignity and human authority can bind power over AI across borders.
During his visit for the Conference, President Levits will join the AIWS Civilization Table, A Dinner Series on Shaping the Civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation, for a conversation on AIWS Civilization and AIWS Lumina.
Egils Levits, President of Latvia (2019–2023) and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union
by Editor BGF | Oct 18, 2026 | News
The burning of Limoges’s historic town hall and violent clashes in Paris, Milan, and Bologna have confronted Europe with a question that will outlast the riots: how can societies address deep grievances without turning disagreement into enmity?
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, answers that restoring order is necessary, but what Europe is missing is wisdom.
Intelligence helps us determine what is true and what works. Wisdom asks what we should do together when we know we disagree. Wisdom is the capacity to confront injustice, understand disagreement, and find a way to act together: to disagree without becoming enemies. It begins with acknowledging that no one possesses the whole truth. It asks us to understand before judging, verify before sharing, and consider consequences before acting. It does not ask anyone to surrender their convictions or accept injustice.
Knowledge has never been more abundant, and AI can supply ever more answers. But more information will not heal division. Only wisdom can turn AI from an amplifier of resentment into an aid to understanding. In the AI Age, wisdom must become a shared capacity of civilization, the central purpose of AIWS Civilization.
Read the full essay → https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Europes_Unrest_Wisdom_Is_the_Missing_Solution_EN.pdf
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
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.
