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.
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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
by Editor BGF | Sep 27, 2026 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
Communication can prevent an AI incident from becoming an international crisis. Trust requires verification and answerability.
During President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States, President Donald Trump and President Xi established the U.S.–China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue on the risks and benefits of AI, which the two leaders agreed to call “super intelligence.” The next exchange will take place by November 2026. They also agreed to establish a bilateral communication channel for AI-related incidents.
This is an important strategic development. The United States and China compete over chips, compute, frontier models, infrastructure, and technological influence. The new channel recognizes that an unexpected AI incident could cross borders, threaten national security, be mistaken for hostile action, and escalate before either government understands what happened.
Yet the channel has been agreed only in principle. Its essential questions remain open:
- What constitutes an incident?
- What threshold requires notification?
- How quickly must it be reported?
- What evidence must be shared, and who verifies it?
A bilateral channel is therefore a necessary guardrail, but not yet a trust system. Governments can report only what they know. Many consequential signals first appear inside private AI laboratories: unexpected behavior, failed safeguards, near misses, unreleased capabilities, and autonomous actions beyond authorization.
AIWS provides the missing institutional layer. The AIWS Trust Observatory independently assesses evidence, issues early warnings, maps blind spots, and identifies who has the authority and duty to act. It operates two instruments:
- The AI Incident Exchange records and classifies incidents.
- The Frontier Capability Registry identifies systems crossing consequential thresholds.
These mechanisms do not replace diplomacy or national sovereignty. They connect communication between states with independent observation, verification, and Proof of Answerability.
The U.S.–China channel may prevent silence from becoming escalation. A genuine trust system must also prevent secrecy from becoming impunity.
Photo: AP/Alex Brandon.
by Editor BGF | Sep 27, 2026 | Papers & Reports, News, Publications
Boston Global Forum and AIWS establish an independent civil-society mechanism to observe consequential AI power, warn of emerging danger, and call those responsible to act.
Boston, September 27, 2026
The Boston Global Forum and AIWS today publish The Founding Framework of the AIWS Trust Observatory, a decisive step from warning about AI risk to building an institution that can see danger in time and move the world to act.
The Observatory is neither a global AI government nor a form of self-oversight by those who build AI. It is an independent civil-society institution for independent global observation.
Do not centralize control over AI. Do not leave consequential AI power unobserved.
How the Observatory Shapes the Future
It moves decisions earlier. Four alert levels, from Watch to Critical Alert, bring evidence of danger to those who can act while action still matters, not after harm has become irreversible.
It turns promises into accountability. The Commitment Register records every public AI safety commitment of each company and government, and measures those promises against observable conduct.
It turns blind spots into law. The Blind Spot Map states what society cannot yet see, why, and what disclosure or law would make it visible, giving policymakers concrete proposals instead of general concern.
It gives society the right to act. Every warning names who must act, what must be done, and who must answer, and the Observatory follows up until the responsible parties respond.
It makes concentrated AI power answerable. Corporate and state AI power alike are observed through Five Stations — Behavior, Footprint, Consequence, Access, and Insider — so that no one exercises consequential AI power beyond public scrutiny.
Independence as the Source of Authority
The Observatory’s authority comes from evidence, not power. Every finding carries an evidence grade. No public conclusion rests solely on confidential sources. Every subject has the right of reply and review. No one under observation may fund the Observatory.
The first Quarterly State of Frontier AI will be published at the end of January 2027.
Join the AIWS Volunteer Fellows
The Observatory invites scholars, engineers, security researchers, lawyers, journalists, and policymakers worldwide to join the AIWS Volunteer Fellows and help build humanity’s independent eyes on AI power.
AI power must never become power over society without society’s knowledge, scrutiny, and right to act.
DOWNLOAD THE FULL TEXT
→ The Founding Framework of the AIWS Trust Observatory (PDF)
by Editor BGF | Sep 23, 2026 | News
A global movement built on the world’s first comprehensive architecture for a civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation
BOSTON, September 23, 2026 — The Boston Global Forum and AIWS today launched the AIWS Human–AI Co-Creation Movement at Cultural Diversity Day 2026 in the Massachusetts State House, carrying AIWS Civilization from architecture into public action.
The launch statement of Nguyen Anh Tuan, Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS and Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of the Boston Global Forum, was read by the Master of Ceremonies while he took part in high-level events in New York during the United Nations General Assembly.
“AI systems trained on humanity’s accumulated data can pull expression toward the average,” Nguyen Anh Tuan said. “But no human being is an average, and no culture is. The deepest cultural danger of our age is not that machines will create too much. It is that the world will begin to sound, look, and think alike. We refuse that future.”
Addressing a Commonwealth still governed under its Constitution of 1780, the world’s oldest functioning written constitution, he added: “A constitution restrains power. A movement awakens people.”
The Movement’s principle is Humanity leads. AI elevates. Together, we create. Human beings define purpose, uphold values, and bear responsibility; AI expands what people can understand, imagine, and create, under meaningful human command.
Every initiative must pass the Human Advancement Test: after working with AI, do people think, create, and contribute more than before? Joining begins with three commitments:
— I remain the author of what I create.
— I bring my own culture into what I create with AI.
— I use AI to become more capable, never less.
The statement invited people of goodwill everywhere to join, and called on communities in every city and every nation to carry the Movement home.
The launch came at the invitation of Benjamin Aysan, Executive Director of Peace Islands Institute Boston and a principal organizer of Cultural Diversity Day 2026.
“Cultural diversity reminds us that humanity’s strength comes from our different stories, traditions, and perspectives,” said Benjamin Aysan. “As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly important part of our lives, we must ensure that technology strengthens rather than diminishes that human richness. We are pleased that Cultural Diversity Day at the Massachusetts State House provides a meaningful setting for launching this important conversation.”
FROM BEACONHILL TO THE WORLD
AIWS Civilization was conceived at the AIWS Lumina Lab on Beacon Hill. It was introduced through Beacon Papers No. 8 on August 24, 2026, as the first comprehensive architecture for a civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation, and its central conviction was proclaimed at the Silicon Valley Peace Conference on September 18. On September 23, at the Massachusetts State House, its defining practice became a global movement, open to all humanity.
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by Editor BGF | Sep 24, 2026 | News
At the panel “AI, Digital Sovereignty and the Future of Global Governance,” held during the XXXVII NGIC High-Level Meeting at the Harvard Club of New York within the framework of the United Nations General Assembly, the Boston Global Forum CEO called on international leaders to build trusted institutions, constitutional foundations, and a civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation.
NEW YORK, September 24, 2026 — Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, presented a concrete agenda for action in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at the XXXVII High-Level Meeting of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center.
The conference took place on September 23–24 at the Harvard Club of New York, within the framework of the high-level events of the United Nations General Assembly.
Speaking at the panel “AI, Digital Sovereignty and the Future of Global Governance,” Nguyen Anh Tuan urged governments, international institutions, universities, technology organizations, and civic leaders to move beyond warnings about artificial intelligence and begin building the structures required to ensure that AI serves humanity.
The panel was moderated by Ambassador Zlatko Lagumdžija, Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations and former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The distinguished speakers included:
- Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights;
- Bernardo Mariano Junior, Chief Information Technology Officer and Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Information and Communications Technology at United Nations Headquarters;
- Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia from 2015 to 2020;
- Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of the Boston Global Forum;
- Susan Ness, former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and Distinguished Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center;
- Jerome Glenn, Co-Founder and CEO of The Millennium Project.
In his remarks, Nguyen Anh Tuan introduced America at 250: A Beacon for the AI Age as a source of practical lessons for the future: power must be restrained by constitutional principles, freedom must be sustained by trusted institutions, and citizens must remain the authors of their common future.
He then presented three major programs through which the Boston Global Forum is translating these principles into action:
- AIWS Trust Infrastructure — public infrastructure designed to establish trusted identity, bounded authority, Proof of Answerability, transparency, and meaningful human command over AI systems.
- The Constitution for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — an open global co-creation process founded on human dignity, human sovereignty, and the principle of Human-in-Command.
- AIWS Civilization — a comprehensive architecture for a civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation, created to advance humanity intellectually, creatively, morally, and institutionally as artificial intelligence becomes more powerful.
Nguyen Anh Tuan also highlighted the launch of the AIWS Human–AI Co-Creation Movement at the Massachusetts State House on September 23, 2026, under the principle:
Humanity leads. AI elevates. Together, we create.
He invited NGIC and leaders from around the world to join the AIWS Trust Infrastructure, contribute to the Constitution, establish Human–AI Co-Creation initiatives, and help identify and bring together the pioneers capable of leading humanity responsibly into the AI Age.
The following is the full text of his remarks.
FROM AMERICA AT 250 TO AIWS CIVILIZATION: A CALL TO ACTION
Remarks by Nguyen Anh Tuan
Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, Boston Global Forum
XXXVII NGIC High-Level Meeting
Panel: “AI, Digital Sovereignty and the Future of Global Governance”
Harvard Club of New York
September 24, 2026
Excellencies, distinguished leaders, Ambassador Lagumdžija, and friends,
We have heard many warnings about artificial intelligence. Today, I would like to speak not about what we fear, but about what we can build together — beginning now. Digital sovereignty will not be secured by declarations. It will be secured by what we build.
Let me begin with our book, America at 250: A Beacon for the AI Age. This is not simply a book commemorating America. It carries a solution for the AI Age: power must be restrained by constitutional principles; freedom must be sustained by trusted institutions; and citizens must remain the authors of their common future.
The Boston Global Forum is turning this lesson into three concrete programs.
First, the AIWS Trust Infrastructure. Trust cannot remain a promise made by those who build powerful systems. It must become public infrastructure. AI agents need trusted identity, clearly bounded authority, and Proof of Answerability. Frontier capabilities must be registered. AI incidents must be shared. Governments, companies, and AI systems must all remain verifiable and under meaningful human command.
We invite governments, institutions, and technology organizations represented here to become partners and pilot sites for the AIWS Trust Infrastructure.
Second, the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. It begins with human dignity, human sovereignty, and Human-in-Command. But this Constitution will not be written by a few and presented to the world afterward. It is open now — while it is being built. We invite NGIC, its members, governments, universities, experts, and citizens to become co-creators before it is proclaimed at Loeb House, Harvard University, on April 27, 2027.
Third, AIWS Civilization. Through Beacon Papers No. 8, we introduced the world’s first comprehensive architecture for a civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation. Its purpose is not merely to make AI safer. It is to enable humanity to advance — intellectually, creatively, morally, and institutionally — while AI becomes more powerful.
Yesterday, at the Massachusetts State House, we launched the AIWS Human–AI Co-Creation Movement. Its principle is clear:
Humanity leads. AI elevates. Together, we create.
We invite every country, university, city, cultural community, and organization represented here to create its own Human–AI Co-Creation initiative — preserving human identity and cultural diversity while expanding human capability.
To carry these solutions into action, the Boston Global Forum has announced Ten Years of AIWS, a program culminating on April 27, 2027. We are also bringing together the Hundred Pioneers of the AI Age: the fifty honorees of America 250: AI Pioneers and up to fifty Founding World AI Pioneers.
I therefore invite NGIC and every leader in this room to act with us: join the AIWS Trust Infrastructure; help write the Constitution; establish Human–AI Co-Creation initiatives; and bring forward the pioneers who can lead this work.
The AI Age will not wait for institutions to catch up. We have enough warnings. We now need trusted structures, constitutional foundations, and courageous human leadership.
Let us build them together — so that artificial intelligence serves peace, freedom, human dignity, and the advancement of humanity.
Thank you.
