by Editor BGF | Sep 23, 2026 | News
Distinguished elected officials, community leaders, honored guests, and friends,
I send this message from New York, where the nations of the world are gathered for the United Nations General Assembly. But my heart is here, in the Massachusetts State House, on Cultural Diversity Day.
AI systems trained on humanity’s accumulated data can pull expression toward the average. 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.
This building is home to the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Commonwealth is governed under the Constitution of 1780, the world’s oldest functioning written constitution. Here, we say what our age requires:
A constitution restrains power. A movement awakens people.
AIWS Civilization was conceived on Beacon Hill, a short walk from this hall, and presented through Beacon Papers No. 8 as the first comprehensive architecture for a civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation. Today, its defining practice goes out to the world.
On behalf of the Boston Global Forum and AIWS, I hereby announce the official launch of the AIWS Human–AI Co-Creation Movement.
Humanity leads. AI elevates. Together, we create.
Human beings define purpose, uphold values, and bear responsibility. AI expands what we can understand, imagine, and create, under meaningful human command.
Every initiative in this Movement must pass one test—the Human Advancement Test:
After working with AI, do people think, create, and contribute more than before?
Joining the Movement begins with three commitments anyone can make today:
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.
I invite everyone gathered here today—and people of goodwill everywhere—to join us and help build this Movement, bringing Human–AI Co-Creation into our communities and our shared future.
I extend my sincere gratitude to Mr. Benjamin Aysan, Executive Director of Peace Islands Institute Boston and a principal organizer of Cultural Diversity Day 2026, for inviting the Boston Global Forum to take part today and to announce the launch of this Movement at such a meaningful gathering.
To students and teachers, artists and scientists, public leaders and communities, in every city and every nation: carry this Movement home.
Let AI help every culture flourish and every human being rise.
Let us begin, together.
Humanity leads.
AI elevates.
Together, we create.
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS
Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, Boston Global Forum
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by Editor BGF | Sep 23, 2026 | News
This week in New York, world leaders gather to rebuild trust among nations. In this century, trust among nations can no longer be separated from trust between humanity and the intelligence it is creating.
Today the Boston Global Forum announces Ten Years of AIWS, a program that culminates at Harvard University on April 27, 2027.
The announcement is made as Nguyen Anh Tuan, Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, and H.E. Zlatko Lagumdžija, member of the AIWS Trust Board, take part in the XXXVII High-Level Meeting of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, Rebuilding Trust, Cooperation and Global Stability for a Shared Future, at the Harvard Club of New York, alongside the United Nations General Assembly.
When AIWS began in Boston in 2017, the world was asking how artificial intelligence should be governed.
The question for the decade ahead is larger: what civilization will humanity build with AI? AIWS answers: AI advances. Humanity must advance further.
Read more and Download full Statement of The Boston Global Forum: Ten Years Of AIWS
by Editor BGF | Sep 17, 2026 | News
Held from September 17 to 20, 2026, in Palo Alto—the heart of Silicon Valley—the Silicon Valley Peace Conference brought together religious and spiritual leaders, scholars, technology innovators, policymakers, peacebuilders, and community leaders to consider how humanity can build peace amid profound technological and geopolitical change.
On the morning of September 18, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Chief Architect of AIWS, delivered a keynote address and call to action. Speaking at a moment when frontier AI leaders themselves are warning that technological capabilities may advance faster than humanity’s ability to govern them, he argued that principles and declarations are no longer enough. The world must now build institutions, safeguards, and practical programs capable of keeping AI under legitimate human authority.
Beyond presenting a vision, Nguyen Anh Tuan has taken on the role of a thinker, architect, and convening leader—uniting scholars, AI pioneers, policymakers, and creative leaders in a shared effort to develop the ideas, build the institutions, and bring AIWS Civilization into reality.
His address presented AIWS Civilization as a practical path toward peace, human dignity, and Human–AI Co-Creation. He called on governments, technology leaders, universities, communities, and especially leaders and citizens of developing nations to participate actively in shaping the AI Age through the AIWS Trust Order, the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of AI, and concrete international initiatives.
The central message was clear: humanity must not remain a spectator to the civilization emerging around AI. This is the moment to act—and to build together a future in which AI serves humanity, human dignity, and peace.
Read and download the complete keynote address (PDF)
by Editor BGF | Sep 20, 2026 | Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security, News
Shinzo Abe is no longer here to make this appeal. The two words he left us now do.
Shinzo Abe left the leaders of the world two words: with trust.
In January 2019 at Davos, he introduced a phrase that would reshape the international debate over the digital economy: Data Free Flow with Trust. At the G20 in Osaka that June, he put it into international practice and launched the Osaka Track to carry it forward. The first three words were already the language of commerce. The last two were his.
Seven years later, those two words must be added again:
AI power — with trust.
National AI forces — with trust.
Global competition — with trust.
On September 19, the President of the United States announced an American AI Force. The Boston Global Forum supports that decision. America must move rapidly in AI, and other nations will build their own strategic AI capabilities.
Let them build. Let them innovate. Let them compete.
But let them bind that power before catastrophe binds it for them.
Within a few years, the most powerful systems ever created will become instruments of national power across many capitals. The decisive question will no longer be which nation possesses the strongest AI. It will be whether any nation can trust the AI power held by another.
No nation can answer that question alone. Trust between states is never a national possession. No government can declare itself trustworthy. Trust must be made visible through common principles, independent verification, bounded authority, Human-in-Command, and Proof of Answerability.
It must be written together, in advance — or written after the first catastrophe, by people who have lost the freedom to choose their own terms.
The Boston Global Forum and AIWS are building that constitutional foundation now.
The Constitution for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence has reached Version 1.4: thirty-seven articles across seven Parts, with a pathway to accession inspired by the Constitution of the United States. It will be proclaimed at Harvard’s Loeb House on April 27, 2027.
To the leaders of the world:
You are the last generation able to establish these terms while establishing them is still a choice.
Do not wait for every nation to agree. Do not wait for the first irreversible failure. Do not wait until systems more powerful than institutions begin setting the terms themselves.
The Founding Commitment opens before the text is complete, allowing leaders to affirm its constitutional principles and help shape the final charter. Formal accession will open when the completed Constitution is proclaimed.
Join now, in your own name or on behalf of your institution — not for the honor of being remembered, but for the responsibility of acting before humanity is compelled to act.
Then begin governing by these principles at home:
Independent verification.
Constitutional limits.
Proof of Answerability.
Human command over consequential decisions.
None requires waiting for permission.
Abe understood which word carried the weight. Not free. Trust.
Freedom allows power to move. Trust makes power legitimate.
He did not live to see the age of national AI forces. We do. The answering is ours.
The order Shinzo Abe envisioned will exist only if the leaders reading these words now choose to build it.
by Editor BGF | Sep 20, 2026 | News
A New Measure of Recognition in the AI Age
I. What Recognition Measures Today
Society has come to recognize influence through its most easily counted signals: how widely a person is known, how often they appear, how large an audience follows them, and how strongly algorithms carry their name forward.
By themselves, these signals do not measure contribution. They measure circulation and visibility.
In the AI Age, the gap has widened. Fame can now be manufactured through media exposure, institutional power, wealth, follower counts, and algorithmic amplification. A person may be widely known without having made a substantive contribution, created a lasting beneficial influence, or advanced the higher values of humanity. At the same time, those who have devoted their lives to educating others, fostering reconciliation, connecting communities, and developing ideas or institutions that make society better may pass through the world almost unrecorded—because their work was never designed to attract attention.
Fame does not diminish genuine contribution, but neither does it prove it. Visibility cannot substitute for character. Attention cannot substitute for contribution. Status cannot substitute for a life of service.
II. What AIWS Lumina Proposes
AIWS Lumina proposes that society change what it looks for—and reconsider what it chooses to honor.
A person of true influence is one whose thought, creativity, leadership, or service has made human life better and whose contribution endures beyond immediate recognition. This is a different question from how many people know that person’s name, and it requires a different framework through which to understand influence.
The AIWS Lumina Measure of True Influence offers such a framework. Its purpose is neither to judge human worth nor to create another hierarchy of fame. Its purpose is to discover what conventional systems of recognition have missed: to identify authentic contributions, bring their creators into the light, and encourage society to honor those whose influence is grounded in enduring human values.
AIWS Lumina is not directed against those who are famous. Many widely recognized individuals have made profound and lasting contributions. Its distinctive responsibility begins where recognition falls short—where meaningful lives and transformative work remain obscured by the noise of visibility.
III. How AIWS Lumina Evaluates
The Measure considers a life through the four Lumina values—Love, Creativity, Nobility, and Wisdom—and then asks what those qualities have created for humanity and society.
The four values illuminate the character expressed through a person’s life. Their enduring contribution reveals what that life leaves behind.
Three principles guide the evaluation.
Depth rather than reach.
Fame is often measured by how many people have heard a name. True influence is better understood through the depth and significance of the change a person has brought to individuals, institutions, communities, or society.
What outlives presence.
Visibility may fade when a person is no longer present in public life. Genuine contribution continues—in institutions that still serve, in students who go on to teach, in communities that remain connected, and in ideas that others carry forward. What survives beyond the immediate presence of its author is among the strongest evidence of enduring influence.
The Lumina Recognition Gap.
The Measure considers the distance between what a person has genuinely contributed and the recognition society has given them. The greater this gap, the greater the responsibility of AIWS Lumina to bring that person and their work into the light.
The Recognition Gap does not mean that public recognition disqualifies a person from being honored. It ensures that visibility is never mistaken for value—and that those overlooked by conventional institutions, media, or algorithms receive the attention their contributions deserve.
The evidence is not publicity, follower counts, or media prominence. It is the work itself, the results it has produced over time, and the testimony of the people and communities who have experienced its effects.
AI may assist by gathering evidence, discovering overlooked contributions, and connecting testimonies across languages, cultures, and generations. But judgment must remain human. The AIWS Lumina Cultural Board holds the responsibility to evaluate and recognize. Character, compassion, wisdom, and nobility cannot be determined by data or algorithms alone.
A contribution is discovered, understood, evaluated, recognized, and introduced to the world.
AIWS Lumina does not simply seek those most visible to the public, the media, or algorithms. It brings light to those who, through wisdom, character, creativity, and a lifetime of service, have made humanity better.
In the AI Age, this is more than recognition. It is the restoration of society’s ability to see true human value.
by Editor BGF | Sep 20, 2026 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, will speak at the XXXVII High-Level Meeting, “Rebuilding Trust, Cooperation and Global Stability for a Shared Future,” on September 23–24, 2026, at the Harvard Club of New York City.
Organized as a side event to the United Nations General Assembly, the meeting will bring together an exceptional assembly of former heads of state and government, United Nations leaders, diplomats, and global thinkers. Participants include former British Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Theresa May; Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, former President of Latvia and recipient of the Boston Global Forum’s 2019 World Leader for Peace and Security Award; former European Council President Charles Michel; Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus; UNCTAD Secretary-General Rebeca Grynspan; UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous; and several former Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly.
On September 24, Nguyen Anh Tuan will speak in the panel “AI, Digital Sovereignty and the Future of Global Governance,” moderated by Zlatko Lagumdžija, Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations and former Prime Minister. The panel also includes Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights; Bernardo Mariano Jr., Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Information Technology Officer of the United Nations; former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović; former U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness; and other distinguished leaders.
Nguyen Anh Tuan will present The Constitution for Humanity in the Age of AI as a foundational pillar of AIWS Civilization—the Civilization of Human–AI Co-Creation.
The Constitution is not a constitution for machines. It is a human covenant establishing the principles and institutions needed to ensure that human dignity, sovereignty, freedom, and responsibility remain paramount as artificial intelligence grows more powerful. It affirms that humanity must remain the author of values, the source of legitimate authority, and the final decision-maker in matters affecting human life and civilization.
His presentation will connect these constitutional principles with AIWS Trust Infrastructure, Human-in-Command, Information Trust, and practical mechanisms that make advanced AI identifiable, accountable, and answerable to humanity.
By bringing the Constitution into dialogue with world leaders and United Nations institutions, Nguyen Anh Tuan will advance a central mission of AIWS Civilization: transforming the governance of AI into a shared responsibility for peace and the future of humanity.
Professor Alex Pentland and Nguyen Anh Tuan, co-founders of the Boston Global Forum, present the 2019 World Leader for Peace and Security Award to Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, former President of Latvia and then President of the World Leadership Alliance–Club de Madrid, in Madrid on October 21, 2019—honoring a lifetime of leadership in democracy, peace, and international cooperation.
by Editor BGF | Sep 20, 2026 | Papers & Reports, News, Publications
Beyond the False Choice Between Safety and Speed
Two powerful arguments are shaping the future of AI. OpenAI and Anthropic warn that rapidly advancing capabilities demand stronger safeguards, independent evaluation, and coordination before humanity loses effective control. President Donald Trump and NVIDIA emphasize speed, innovation, and national competitiveness, warning that excessive restraint could surrender technological leadership to strategic rivals.
Both positions address real concerns. Neither, by itself, establishes a durable order for governing AI power. Who authorizes consequential capabilities? Who verifies safety commitments? Who must answer when systems exceed their authority—and what gives competing nations and companies a reason to exercise reciprocal restraint?
Beacon Papers No. 12 presents the AIWS Trust Order as a framework for answering these questions. Six mechanisms connect innovation to accountable human authority: a Frontier Capability Registry, Constitutional Mandate and Bounded Authority, Proof of Answerability, an AI Incident Exchange, AIWS Trust Rating and Trust Index, and an Emergency Protocol. Verified commitments become a basis for market access, research partnerships, and trusted cooperation.
The paper’s central message: humanity can advance with courage while building institutions capable of governing the power it creates. Trust is the condition that keeps competition from becoming catastrophe.
Download Beacon Papers No. 12: The AI Race Needs a Trust Order
Boston Global Forum introduced the AIWS Trust Order at Interop Tokyo 2026, establishing a framework for trustworthy AI grounded in human authority, constitutional safeguards, and verifiable responsibility. Tokyo, June 12, 2026.
by Editor BGF | Sep 20, 2026 | News, Shaping Futures
Claude now leads a quarter of Anthropic’s model R&D. Self-improvement is not self-authorization.
Anthropic disclosed on September 17 that, as of August, about 90 percent of its model research and development tasks involved collaboration with Claude — the model doing large portions of the work under close human direction. Claude now leads 26 percent of the company’s model R&D, up from none in February.
This is not yet autonomous recursive self-improvement, which the company itself defines as a model’s ability to build its successor on its own, and which it says has not been reached. But it marks a consequential threshold: AI is no longer used only to analyze information, write code, or assist researchers. It is beginning to help create the next generation of AI.
The development holds enormous promise. Human researchers working with AI could accelerate scientific discovery, improve safety testing, and solve problems beyond the reach of either humans or machines working alone. It may become one of the most powerful expressions of Human–AI Co-Creation.
But a constitutional boundary must remain clear:
Self-improvement must never become self-authorization.
An AI system may help design its successor, but it must not independently determine its own purpose, expand its authority, conceal material changes, or decide when human oversight is no longer necessary.
Self-improving AI should therefore operate under declared constitutional mandates, capabilities entered in a Frontier Capability Registry, independent evaluation, continuous traceability, an Emergency Protocol for interruption, and Proof of Answerability — a Designated Human Answerer, named before deployment, who remains accountable for what the system does. AIWS Trust Standards 1.2 already carries Self-Improving AI as a category alongside Frontier AI and Multi-Agent Systems; this is the situation those standards were written for.
This is a central principle of AIWS Civilization and of the Constitution for Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: AI may extend humanity’s intelligence and creative power, but it cannot become the source of its own legitimacy.
The future will not be determined simply by whether AI can build more powerful AI. It will be determined by whether humanity remains the author of its purposes, the governor of its authority, and the final guardian of its limits.
by Editor BGF | Sep 20, 2026 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
BGF–AIWS supports President Trump’s AI Force — and proposes a constitutional framework for its mission.
America should move rapidly in AI. The greater its technological power becomes, however, the stronger its architecture of trust, human authority, and verifiable responsibility must be.
On September 19, President Donald Trump announced plans to establish an “AI Force” and appoint an “AI czar” to coordinate the United States’ approach to artificial intelligence. He also rejected calls for broad constraints that could slow American innovation and weaken the nation’s position in its strategic competition with China. Details concerning the new institution’s mandate, authority, structure, and oversight have not yet been released.
The Boston Global Forum and AIWS support President Trump’s decision to create an AI Force. AI is becoming a foundational source of economic strength, scientific discovery, national security, and geopolitical influence. The United States must develop AI rapidly, invest in chips, computing, energy, research, and human talent, and preserve its leadership in the global competition.
But speed and trust must advance together.
Because the operating mechanism of the AI Force has not yet been defined, BGF–AIWS proposes that it be built upon the constitutional and institutional principles developed through the Boston Declaration of July 4, 2026, the AIWS Trust Order, the AIWS Trust Infrastructure, and the Beacon Papers.
The AI Force should include:
- A legitimate constitutional mandate and clearly bounded authority — where its authority comes from, and how that authority is limited and technically enforced. (Beacon Papers No. 11, No Power Without a Mandate; No. 12, The AI Race Needs a Trust Order.)
- A Frontier Capability Registry for consequential AI systems, so that a government knows what exists before it is deployed. (No. 12.)
- Independent evaluation and continuous verification — “Those who would ask for trust must first earn it, and stand ready to be measured” (Boston Declaration, Principle IX) — delivered through the four mechanisms of the Tokyo Compact and AIWS Trust Standards v1.0, with four-tier certification and the Automated Trust Monitor.
- Constitutional Identity and Proof of Answerability, with a Designated Human Answerer named before deployment who holds authority to halt and revoke. (Beacon Papers No. 10, No AI Agent Without Identity.)
- Human-in-Command for decisions with severe, systemic, or irreversible consequences. (Beacon Papers No. 5, Who May Command?)
- Mandatory disclosure through an AI Incident Exchange, so that one institution’s failure becomes everyone’s early warning. (No. 12.)
- Emergency protocols for frontier AI, cyber, biological, infrastructure, and national-security risks, deciding in advance who may stop what. (No. 12.)
- Oversight by lawful institutions, independent experts, and the public — the Boston Declaration’s third principle holds that human beings must retain “the right to understand, to refuse, and to intervene,” and against a state instrument those three rights are exercised through published oversight or not at all.
These safeguards should not become barriers to innovation. Properly designed, they will strengthen innovation by creating confidence among citizens, companies, investors, allies, and international partners.
BGF–AIWS therefore supports both central elements of President Trump’s position: America should establish a national AI Force, and America should move quickly to develop AI. At the same time, no consequential AI power — whether exercised by a company, an AI agent, or the government itself — should operate without legitimate authority, constitutional limits, and verifiable responsibility.
Capability is not authority. National leadership is not a license for unaccountable power.
Nor is this a cost imposed on American speed. America does not win this race by coming to resemble its competitor; it wins as the nation whose systems other nations are willing to trust. That trust is the one advantage a closed system cannot copy.
The Boston Declaration was proclaimed on the Fourth of July, and it sets the measure for everything built since: “Artificial Intelligence may surpass human intelligence in many domains. It must never surpass the primacy of the human person.”
An AI Force built on these principles could become more than an instrument of technological competition. It could demonstrate that the United States can lead the Age of Artificial Intelligence by advancing innovation, freedom, security, human dignity, and constitutional responsibility together.
Move fast in innovation. Lead first in trust.
