by Editor BGF | Oct 5, 2026 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Professor Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley, an America 250: AI Pioneer and a Founding Signatory of The Boston Declaration, was among more than 200 signatories, including Geoffrey Hinton, to Minimum Conditions for Embedding Evaluators, an open letter published by the AI Evaluator Forum on September 18, 2026.
Responding to industry proposals to embed third-party evaluators within frontier AI companies, the letter sets five minimum conditions: meaningful independence, diverse expertise and viewpoints, transparency, protection against retaliation, and access comparable to that of senior employees conducting equivalent risk assessments. It also emphasizes that embedded evaluations must complement broader external oversight.
The call reinforces a principle BGF–AIWS articulated in Beacon Papers No. 4, Who May Verify?, published on July 27: AI power requires independent verification, and verifiers must themselves remain independent, accountable, and open to challenge.
On September 27, BGF–AIWS established the AIWS Trust Observatory, an independent civil-society mechanism to observe consequential AI power, warn of emerging danger, and call those responsible to act.
Independent evaluators inside frontier AI companies and an independent Observatory outside them serve complementary purposes: privileged access for rigorous assessment, and public scrutiny that connects evidence with responsibility.
Read the open letter →
by Editor BGF | Oct 5, 2026 | News
Speaking to artists and curators at the Vatican’s Consistory Hall on October 2, 2026, Pope Leo XIV called for a renewed alliance between the Church, artists, and cultural institutions to safeguard what is human in the age of artificial intelligence.
His address highlighted a danger extending beyond censorship: homogenization. Authentic art, he emphasized, opens deeper questions, nurtures listening, and expresses humanity’s aspirations, wounds, and search for meaning. He affirmed an ontological difference — “even before an aesthetic one” — between human artistic creation and what machines generate through statistical calculation.
For Boston Global Forum, this message resonates deeply with AIWS Civilization: each person and each culture has something unique to contribute, and technological progress must strengthen the conditions in which those contributions flourish.
Nine days earlier, at the Massachusetts State House, BGF launched the AIWS Human–AI Co-Creation Movement on a kindred conviction: AI trained on humanity’s data is drawn toward the average, yet no human being and no culture is average.
AIWS Human–AI Co-Creation places human purpose, cultural identity, judgment, and responsibility at the center of working with AI. AIWS Lumina, guided by Love, Creativity, Nobility, and Wisdom, cultivates the human qualities that give creation its meaning and direction.
Pope Leo’s appeal offers an important contribution to this civilizational dialogue: as AI’s capabilities expand, humanity must preserve and cultivate the sources of creativity that make each human contribution distinctive.
Read Pope Leo XIV’s full address on the Holy See’s website.
by Editor BGF | Oct 4, 2026 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance, Statements, Papers & Reports, News, Publications
To President Donald J. Trump
and the Honorable Michael Kratsios, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Boston, October 4, 2026
The Boston Global Forum supports the President’s commitment to American leadership in artificial intelligence. The United States must build AI fast, build it strong, and remain the nation the world looks to for the frontier of this technology.
We welcome your September 29 meeting with technology and AI leaders and the White House Accord on Super Intelligence signed that day. Its commitments to internal controls, independent auditing, and board oversight create an opportunity to strengthen American AI leadership through verifiable safeguards.
Leadership at the frontier rests on one condition that speed alone cannot supply: trust. Americans, allies, and markets will rely on American AI to the degree they can verify what it does. On September 18, more than 200 signatories, including Geoffrey Hinton and Stuart Russell, an America 250: AI Pioneer, called for genuinely independent evaluation of frontier AI. Independent verification is what allows a nation to move fast without stopping to repair lost confidence.
Boston Global Forum and AIWS are ready to contribute.
On September 27, 2026, BGF–AIWS established the AIWS Trust Observatory, an independent civil-society institution that observes consequential AI power, compares public commitments with actions, and issues early warnings when evidence warrants. It is neither a regulator nor a form of self-oversight. Its findings carry evidence grades, those it observes have the right of reply, and no one under observation may fund it.
We offer the Administration the following:
- Independent early warning. The Observatory will share its evidence-graded alerts with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, so that risks are seen before they become incidents.
- Coordinated, independent evaluation. We will work alongside federal and industry evaluators on shared methods, while keeping the independence that gives evaluation its value.
- A Commitment Register. The Observatory is establishing a public Commitment Register tracking the safety commitments of frontier developers, including those made in the Accord, so that pledges made to the President and to the public can be checked against practice.
This work serves a larger purpose. Through Beacon Papers No. 8, BGF–AIWS set out AIWS Civilization, the Civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation, in which AI expands what human beings can do while people remain the authors of their lives and the holders of command. America’s leadership in AI should be measured not only by the power of its systems but by the strength of the civilization they help build. As the nation marks its 250th year, the United States can lead in both.
AI advances. Humanity must advance further.
We would welcome the opportunity to present the AIWS Trust Observatory to the Office of Science and Technology Policy at a working session in Washington or Boston, at your convenience.
Respectfully,
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO, Boston Global Forum,
Founder and Chief Architect, AIWS,
On behalf of the Leadership Board of the Boston Global Forum – AIWS
President Donald J. Trump hosts a luncheon on Super Intelligence (AI) in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, September 29, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok.)
by Editor BGF | Oct 4, 2026 | Papers & Reports, News, Publications
Boston Global Forum and AIWS present Beacon Papers No. 14, “From a Method to a Civilization,” by Nguyen Anh Tuan, Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS and Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of Boston Global Forum.
Human–AI co-creation has been studied and practiced within particular tasks and domains. Building on Beacon Papers No. 8, this new paper explains how BGF–AIWS establishes it as the organizing principle of AIWS Civilization—a comprehensive architecture connecting human development, culture, constitutional protections, trust infrastructure, institutions, cities, economic systems, and the silicon foundations of AI power.
Its central distinction is decisive: better output can conceal declining human capabilities. Genuine Human–AI Co-Creation must strengthen the person through four conditions: human authorship, Human-in-Command, the Human Advancement Test, and cultural identity.
The paper also connects these conditions with the Human–AI Co-Creation Movement and the AIWS badge framework, affirming that commitment is not certification: human advancement must be demonstrated through evidence.
Its Beacon Principle captures the purpose:
“Co-production makes things. Co-creation makes people. A civilization is measured by the people it makes.”
Readers are invited to download Beacon Papers No. 14 and read the full paper: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Beacon_Papers_No14_From_a_Method_to_a_Civilization.pdf
by Editor BGF | Oct 4, 2026 | Statements, Papers & Reports, News, Publications
On September 30, 2026, Boston time, Nguyen Anh Tuan delivered his address from the Harvard University Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts, joined by several invited guests and connected remotely with a seminar at Lincoln University in New Zealand. The dialogue brought an existing AIWS agenda into discussion with the previous day’s White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Big Tech and AI leaders.
The Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS and Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of Boston Global Forum welcomed the voluntary AI safety accord as an important step, consistent with the direction BGF–AIWS had already advocated: AI power must be verified, monitored, and linked to identifiable responsibility.
With its founding framework published on September 27, AIWS Trust Observatory offers an independent civil society mechanism to examine evidence, compare commitments with actions, identify gaps, and connect warnings with verifiable remedies. Tuan emphasized that independent auditing and board oversight should be complemented by the capacity of society to assess whether safeguards are working.
His address, “From AIWS to AIWS Civilization: Building a Civilization for Humanity in the Age of AI,” connected this urgent task with the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of AI and the Human–AI Co-Creation Movement—protecting people while strengthening their judgment, creativity, and mastery of AI.
Designating the seminar AIWS Civilization Table No. 1, Tuan invited Lincoln’s scholars and students to contribute research and practical projects. He announced plans to submit the dialogue’s contributions and proposals to President Trump and White House science and technology adviser Michael Kratsios.
Readers are invited to download the PDF and read the full address: https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Tuan_Lincoln_University_Speech_EN_Official.pdf
by Editor BGF | Sep 30, 2026 | News
Boston, September 29, 2026 — The Boston Global Forum has adopted the official badges of AIWS and its ecosystem. A common emblem unites them: the Angel rising in light, the Bald Eagle above her, and two Mai Vàng blossoms on the ring. Each inscription identifies a distinct part of AIWS.
The AIWS Civilization badge represents the Civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation. AIWS Lumina carries its cultural values: Love, Creativity, Nobility, and Wisdom. Separate badges identify the Human–AI Co-Creation Movement, its Atlas, and organizations awarded AIWS Co-Elevation Certified status.
The distinction between commitment and verification is essential. People and communities that take the Movement’s three commitments may display its badge; it does not signify certification. The Co-Elevation Certified badge is reserved for organizations independently assessed at one of four levels.
The Official Badges of the AIWS Ecosystem: Notice of Adoption and Use sets out the meaning, authorized use, and reproduction rules for every badge, effective September 29, 2026.
Download the Official Badges of the AIWS Ecosystem: Notice of Adoption and Use (PDF)
by Editor BGF | Sep 27, 2026 | Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security, News
At the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi recalled Shinzo Abe’s advocacy of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific at the 2016 Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Kenya. A decade later, she called on nations to build the capacity to determine their own futures. She pledged stronger cooperation on the risks of frontier AI, including with Global South partners, and announced Japan’s intention to host an AI Summit at the earliest opportunity. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
The same day, Takaichi and President Donald Trump agreed to further strengthen economic security cooperation, including in AI, semiconductors, and critical minerals, and reaffirmed the Quad and a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
In the AI Age, self-determination requires more than access to powerful AI. Nations must also be able to assess these systems, limit their authority, and know who must answer for consequential decisions.
To this end, BGF is establishing the AIWS Trust Observatory, an independent institution that observes consequential AI power, including frontier AI risks. It measures the commitments of developers and governments against their actions, and warns and calls for action when credible evidence reveals danger. The Observatory is part of AIWS Trust Infrastructure, alongside Human-in-Command, bounded authority, the Frontier Capability Registry, and the AI Incident Exchange.
Through the Shinzo Abe Initiative, BGF will convene partners in Japan, the United States, and other nations around this work. A free and open international order will be stronger when its peoples have both the means to innovate and the authority to shape the technologies that shape their future.
Photo: Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japan Government
by Editor BGF | Sep 27, 2026 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
On September 25, 2026, President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Pope Leo XIV to the Élysée Palace as the Pope opened his apostolic journey to France. Their talks covered climate change, artificial intelligence, the war in Ukraine, and peace in the Middle East.
Pope Leo called on France to remain “a tireless artisan of peace and multilateralism.” President Macron affirmed that France stands “on the side of peace, active multilateralism, respect for international law and the United Nations Charter.”
On AI, the Pope warned: “If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a ‘paradise of machines’ invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernment.”
Paris answered with two extraordinary gatherings. That evening, some 80,000 young people filled the Stade de France for a prayer vigil. The next day, according to Vatican estimates, 800,000 people gathered at the Place de la Concorde and along the Champs-Élysées for an open-air Mass.
The Boston Global Forum honored President Macron with the 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award at Harvard’s Loeb House, recognizing his mediation in international conflicts, his leadership in strengthening Europe as a force for peace, and his advancement of artificial intelligence. The meeting in Paris brought together the concerns at the heart of that recognition, and of AIWS: peace built through dialogue, and technology that serves human dignity under human command.
Benoît Tessier/Pool Reuters/AP
by Editor BGF | Sep 27, 2026 | Papers & Reports, News, Publications
The world does not need centralized control of AI. It needs independent global observation.
On September 23, 2026, an extraordinary warning came before the United Nations Security Council. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that, if managed poorly, AI “could be a risk to humanity as a whole.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that the most important decisions about AI cannot be made by labs in San Francisco alone. Yet the United States rejected a global regulatory scheme.
This exposes the defining institutional problem of the AI Age. Frontier AI is becoming too consequential to remain visible only to those who build it, yet placing it under a centralized international authority could create another form of unaccountable power.
Beacon Papers No. 13 offers a third path: Do not centralize control over AI. Do not leave consequential AI power unobserved.
The paper introduces the AIWS Trust Observatory, established by the Boston Global Forum and AIWS as an independent civil-society institution that observes consequential AI power, verifies evidence, warns of emerging danger, and calls upon those with authority to act.
The need is urgent. Frontier laboratories can see what their systems are becoming. Society often sees only what they choose to disclose, or what surfaces after a failure. Self-disclosure is necessary. It is not independent oversight.
The Observatory examines not only what AI systems can do, but what authority they are given, whether safeguards are proportionate to that authority, and who must answer when harm occurs. It works through:
- Five Stations observing behavior, consequences, footprints, voluntary access, and protected insider evidence;
- a Commitment Register tracking whether companies and governments act on their public safety promises;
- four alert levels: Watch, Concern, Urgent Warning, and Critical Alert;
- the Frontier Capability Registry, the AI Incident Exchange, quarterly and annual reports, and a Blind Spot Map of what remains hidden from society.
The Observatory will not regulate companies or replace governments. Its authority comes from verified evidence, public warning, and the ability to mobilize those responsible. No one it observes may finance it, every finding carries an evidence grade, and it holds itself to the answerability it asks of others.
It is an institution designed to see danger before society meets it as catastrophe, and to scrutinize concentrated technological power without becoming a new center of unchecked power.
Humanity must not learn what frontier AI has become only after something irreversible has happened. AI power must be observed before it can be governed — and answerable before it can be trusted.
→ Read and download Beacon Papers No. 13: AI Power Must Not Operate Unseen
Dario Amodei addresses the United Nations security council in New York City on Wednesday. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters
