by Editor BGF | Jul 27, 2025 | News
Boston, MA – The Boston Global Forum (BGF) and the AI World Society (AIWS) proudly announce the formation of the AIWS Brands and Values Board, a pioneering council dedicated to recognizing, evaluating, and honoring global brands, value systems, and their founders that are shaping a better and more ethical society in the Age of AI.
A Vision for Ethical and Innovative Brands and Values in the Age of AI
The AIWS Brands and Values Board will set global benchmarks for responsible innovation, ensuring that AI-driven transformation aligns with human values, cultural integrity, and social responsibility. By celebrating prestigious brands and leaders, the Board seeks to guide the future of global branding toward principles of peace, new democracy, transparency, and ethical innovation, with significant global influence.
“This Board is more than an honorific body—it is a platform to highlight brands, values, and leaders who are shaping a human-centered, ethical future and driving positive influence in the Age of AI,” said Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of BGF.
“By recognizing and curating their achievements as AIWS Esteemed Digital Assets, we are creating a global gallery of inspiration that will influence generations to come,” added Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of BGF, and architect of the AIWS Model.
Mission and Key Goals of the AIWS Brands and Values Board
The AIWS Brands and Values Board is committed to identifying and honoring brands, value systems, and leaders that set the highest standards for innovation, ethics, and cultural integrity, pioneering a new paradigm of innovation in the Age of AI. Its mission is to:
- Recognize and celebrate global brands, values, and leaders that exemplify peace, new democracy, transparency, innovation, and cultural integrity, driving meaningful advancements for a better world in the AI Age.
- Highlight and honor transformative initiatives and visionary founders who integrate ethical, political, and social values with technology to advance politics and society, delivering significant impact across key new democratic regions, including the United States, Japan, European Union, United Kingdom, India, Australia, South Korea, and ASEAN nations.
- Curate and preserve these achievements as AIWS Esteemed Digital Assets, ensuring they remain a source of inspiration and guidance for future generations.
Distinguished Members of the AIWS Brands and Values Board
The Board unites 12 globally recognized leaders, scholars, and innovators:
- Governor Michael Dukakis – Co-Founder and Co-Chair of BGF
- Professor John Quelch – Harvard Business School, Global Branding Expert
- Professor Thomas Patterson – Harvard Kennedy School, Co-Founder of BGF
- Professor Nazli Choucri – MIT Political Science, Global Governance and AI Ethics Expert
- Professor Alex Pentland – MIT Media Lab, Pioneer in Data and Social Physics
- Professor David Silbersweig – Harvard Medical School, Global Mental Health and Ethics Thought Leader
- Jeff Saviano – Global Tax Innovation Leader, Harvard AI Ethics Contributor
- Cansu Canca – Founder, AI Ethics Lab, Global AI Ethics Leader
- State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama – Former Japanese State Minister, Indo-Pacific Cooperation Advocate
- Minister Elisabeth Moreno – Former Minister for Gender Equality, France
- Glen Weyl – Founder, Plurality Institute, Blockchain and Social Innovation Leader
- Nguyen Anh Tuan – Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of BGF; Architect of the AIWS Model
About Boston Global Forum and AI World Society
Founded in 2012, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) is a renowned “think and do tank” that develops impactful initiatives to foster peace, new democracy, security, and ethical governance in the digital age.
The AI World Society (AIWS), introduced by BGF, advances a human-centered approach to AI and has launched transformative frameworks such as AIWS Government 24/7, the Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7, AIWS Digital Assets, AIWS Music for Humanity, and AIWS Film Park.
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Website: www.bostonglobalforum.org
by Editor BGF | Jul 27, 2025 | World Leader for Peace and Security, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Chapter 11 delves into a pivotal moment in the history of the Boston Global Forum (BGF): the establishment of the prestigious World Leader for Peace and Security Award in 2015. This chapter recounts the vision behind creating an award of such unique stature, its foundational goals, and how it came to honor global leaders dedicated to peace and progress, further cementing BGF’s role as a companion to the world’s most influential figures. Co-authored by Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson and Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO of BGF, with a foreword by Governor Michael Dukakis.
Chapter 11: 2015 – The World Leader for Peace and Security Award
I constantly grappled with the idea of establishing the Boston Global Forum (BGF) as an organization that gathers elite intellectuals and noble individuals. With a banner held by an upright and kind leader like Governor Michael Dukakis, who had performed wonders in the World’s Intellectual Capital, BGF would reach a high stature to evaluate and encourage leaders to do good for humanity. There was no existing award in the world specifically for leaders serving as presidents or prime ministers. BGF was in a unique position to pioneer such a prestigious award, aiming to inspire those who wield great power, command military, armed, and security systems – those with decision-making authority affecting the fate of countless people – to pursue a virtuous path. With Governor Michael Dukakis as a guiding symbol – an upright, kind, and respected leader by American and global leaders and elites, coupled with BGF’s objective of finding solutions for global peace, security, innovation, and prosperity, I tirelessly contemplated an initiative for BGF to affirm and establish its position. In early October 2015, I conceived the idea that BGF should organize the World Leader for Peace and Security Award. This award aims to honor national leaders (Presidents, Prime Ministers, Speakers of Parliament), spiritual leaders, and leaders of influential international organizations. Through this award, we define BGF’s role not merely as an award-giving body, as some foundations or organizations already exist, but as an organization that walks alongside world leaders, helping them lead better by contributing wisdom from a community of thinkers – elite intellectuals with noble characters and immense love for humanity. From the very beginning of BGF’s establishment, I clearly defined the goal of building a treasure trove of wisdom, which is BGF’s greatest asset. In the new era, intellect is a grand asset; if amassed, this vast pool of wisdom can be “crafted” and innovated into beautiful, noble, and essential values for humanity. This is the intellectual stature BGF has established, from which it builds its stance, position, and mindset to contribute to the world through the highest-level leaders and governments, thereby continuously gathering and expanding this vast intellectual repository, enriching it further to make meaningful and profound contributions. I met Governor Michael Dukakis in early October 2015 to seek his opinion, and he immediately supported the idea. The BGF Board unanimously agreed to launch the Award and present it for the first time at the BGF Conference on Cybersecurity Peace Day, December 12, 2015, at the Harvard Faculty Club.
Please see the full Chapter 11 and the complete book in early September 2025 on the BGF website.
by Editor BGF | Jul 27, 2025 | News
President Donald Trump announced Sunday, July 27, 2025 that the U.S. reached a trade deal with the European Union, following pivotal discussions with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen days before the Aug. 1 tariff deadline.
Trump said that the deal imposes a 15% tariff on most European goods to the U.S., including cars.
Some products, including aircrafts and their components, some chemicals and pharmaceuticals, will not be subject to tariffs, von der Leyen said in a briefing after the agreement was announced. She also said that the new 15% tariff rate would not be added to any tariffs already in effect.
The 15% tariff rate is lower than the 30% rate Trump had previously threatened against the United States’ largest trading partner, but higher than the 10% baseline tariffs the EU was hoping for.
Trump said that the 27-member bloc also agreed to purchase $750 billion worth of U.S. energy and invest an additional $600 billion worth of investments into the U.S. above current levels.
He said that the bloc would also be “purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment,” but did not provide a specific dollar amount.
“It’s a very powerful deal, it’s a very big deal, it’s the biggest of all the deals,” Trump said Sunday alongside von der Leyen.
“It’s a good deal, it’s a huge deal, with tough negotiations,” von der Leyen said after the meeting.
See full here: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/27/trump-european-union-eu-trade-tariffs.html
by Editor BGF | Jul 27, 2025 | News, Shaping Futures
Researchers blend theoretical insight and precision experiments to entangle photons on an ultra-thin chip
In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons — fundamental particles of light — hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Photons are typically controlled and coaxed into quantum states via waveguides on extended microchips, or through bulky devices built from lenses, mirrors, and beam splitters. The photons become entangled – enabling them to encode and process quantum information in parallel – through complex networks of these optical components. But such systems are notoriously difficult to scale up due to the large numbers and imperfections of parts required to do any meaningful computation or networking.
Could all those optical components could be collapsed into a single, flat, ultra-thin array of subwavelength elements that control light in the exact same way, but with far fewer fabricated parts?
Optics researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS) did just that. The research team led by Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering, created specially designed metasurfaces — flat devices etched with nanoscale light-manipulating patterns — to act as ultra-thin upgrades for quantum-optical chips and setups.
Please see full here: https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/07/could-metasurfaces-be-next-quantum-information-processors
by Editor BGF | Jul 27, 2025 | News
The AIWS Brands and Values Board, established by the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and the AI World Society (AIWS), is a cornerstone initiative recognized within the AIWS History of AI House. It underscores that the evolution of AI is not just a story of technology but also of values, ethics, and leadership that make the world better in the Age of AI.
The Board honors prestigious global brands, value systems, and their founders that embody peace, new democracy, transparency, innovation, and cultural integrity. By curating their achievements as AIWS Esteemed Digital Assets, the Board ensures these legacies inspire both present and future generations, guiding AI development toward a human-centered and ethical future.
The Board brings together visionary thinkers and innovators, including Governor Michael Dukakis, Professor John Quelch, Professor Thomas Patterson, Professor Nazli Choucri, Professor Alex Pentland, Professor David Silbersweig, Jeff Saviano, Former French Minister Elisabeth Moreno, Former Japanese State Ministe Nguyen Anh Tuan, Glen Weyl, Dr. Cansu Canca—leaders shaping the intersection of ethics, technology, and social progress.
Through its work, the AIWS Brands and Values Board reaffirms that brands and values are not merely economic assets—they are cultural forces driving a fairer, more democratic, and inclusive world in the Age of AI.
