by Editor | Aug 29, 2021 | News
The opportunities and risks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) seem limitless. While some believe that many of the most challenging problems of this world can be solved through or with the help of AI, other, such as Bill Gates, consider this technology also a risk alike to atomic power and atomic weapons.
There are a number of reasons why AI poses a global risk: First, AI is analysing data through Algorithms, which are supposed to learn, and thus improve their performance, beyond capabilities of humans. While today such performance of AI beyond capabilities of humans is normally limited to very specific tasks, there is a trend to the broadening of these tasks. It cannot be excluded anymore that a general AI is being developed, which surpasses all aspects of human intelligence and eventually thus could dominate humankind in all respects. The problem of control of AI in order to ensure that humans do not become objects of machine control and the ability of states to govern is not undermined has already been amply described in science. It is clear that technology alone cannot deliver such control to a sufficient extent.
Second, much of Artificial Intelligence is and will be delivered and deployed via the Internet, across the borders of this world. It is thus a technology crossing borders in the virtual space without effective controls.
Third, AI is a technology, which is being developed by global corporations and states for various purposes and not limited to a sector. It is a multi-purpose technology, which has potential to scale globally in most areas of our lives, ranging from education and health via the production and delivery of media content and opinions, important for democracy, right through to the management of all essential infrastructures and military purposes. It is the sensitivity of the multiple contexts within which AI is deployed which requires to give its good functioning and governance highest attention. It is also clear that those who control the functioning of AI in sensitive sectors will command greatest power in this world.
Fourth, AI can be embedded in autonomous machines, which may cross borders in trade, crime or military operations, thus combining classical physical safety and security risks with the new risks of AI.
It is important to consider this cross border, global and multipurpose nature of AI in any attempt to assess risks and opportunities of AI. The world has become a community of risk, not only relating to COVID, but also relating to AI. And the scarcest resources is not the one next great idea in terms of a technological solution to a major global challenge, but the scarcest resource relating to AI is the ability to agree, both within states and among states, on how to govern this new powerful and globally scaled multipurpose technology to the benefit of states and mankind.
It is before this background that we are discussing how to give an impetus to the international community and the United Nations to start work on a global multilateral agreement on the governance of AI.
Paul Nemitz, Distinguished Contributor to the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, will be the lead speaker of Plenary I at the Club de Madrid – BGF Policy lab, September 7, 2021.
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by Editor | Aug 29, 2021 | Event Updates
Nobuo Kishi, Japanese Minister of Defense, will be the lead speaker at the Plenary Regional perspectives, models for the governance of AI and digital societies.
Time: 9:00 AM EST; September 7, 2021
Plenary II: Regional perspectives, models for the governance of AI and digital societies
Facilitator: Ramu Damodaran, Co-Chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative
Lead speaker:
- Nobuo Kishi, Minister of Defense of Japan
Panel discussion
- Kevin Rudd, Member of Club de Madrid, Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010, 2013),
- Iveta Radičová, Member of Club de Madrid, Prime Minister of Slovakia (2010-2012)
- Irene Braam, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation North America
- Nanjira Sambuli, Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- David Bray, Director, GeoTech Center and GeoTech Commission, Atlantic Council
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by Editor | Aug 23, 2021 | News
On September 9, 2021, at Club de Madrid – Boston Global Forum Policy Lab, AIWS City (AIWS.city) will officially launch to operate and provide service in its first phase, which includes AIWS University and AIWS Innovations.
AIWS University will bring key programs: AIWS Leadership Master Program, Global Enlightenment Program, and Leaders in the Age of Global Enlightenment. With professors of Harvard, MIT, and other distinguished leaders, AIWS University would to bring flagship ideas, programs with concepts of lifelong learning, learning by practice with smart information, and knowledge base. Students will practice at the United Nations Centennial Initiative and AIWS City.
AIWS Innovations will support and build an ecosystem of AIWS Values, Community Innovation Economy, and People Centered Economy Concepts. AIWS Innovations will apply AIWS Rewards.
Together with the Board of Leaders of AIWS City, which include distinguished leaders, thinkers, innovations, are Global Enlightenment Community. Members of AIWS City will have an ecosystem of learning, working, innovation with Global Enlightenment Community.
Core members of the Global Enlightenment Community are Distinguished Contributors to the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, and people that contribute towards its concept.
by Editor | Aug 23, 2021 | News
Ramu Damodaran, Chief of United Nations Academic Impact (2010 – 2021), co-chair of the United Nations Centennial Initiative, will talk about the goals of the United Nations Centennial Initiative: Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, with Global Enlightenment Education Program, Leaders in the Age of Global Enlightenment.
Practicing and applying concepts of Remaking the World – Towards an Age of Global Enlightenment at AIWS City. AIWS City and NovaWorld Phan Thiet will set up an ecosystem for Community Innovation Economy and a Distinguished City to Honor the United Nations’ first Centennial.
by Editor | Aug 23, 2021 | Event Updates
Kyriakos Pierrakakis is also President of the OECD Global Strategy Group.
The OECD Global Strategy Group, which brings together Undersecretaries, Secretaries-General and other senior officials each year, has the task of facilitating cooperation between Member States. It prepares the work of the OECD Annual Ministerial Meeting, but adopts a more long-term vision.
Topics covered by the Commission include: digital transformation, the future of the labor market and trade in a digitized world, policy planning and international cooperation in a post-pandemic global economic system, and the design and implementation of a sustainable and comprehensive recovery plan. Another goal is to make the Commission more open globally, by expanding the reach of key partners, both from the candidate countries and from G7 and G20 Sherpas representatives.
Plenary V: The United Nations Centennial Initiative: the practice of Fundamental Rights in AI & Digital Societies
- Facilitator
- David Silbersweig, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Co-Director for Institute for the Neurosciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Professor
- Key speakers
- Ramu Damodaran, Co-Chair of the United Nations Centennial
- Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Minister of State and Digital Governance of Greece, Chair of the Global Strategy Group, OECD
- Panel discussion:
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- Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Member of Club de Madrid, President of Latvia (1999-2007)
- Michelle Bachelet, Member of Club de Madrid, President of Chile (2006-2010; 2014-2018) (video-message)
- Thomas Patterson, Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Professor of Government and the Press of Harvard Kennedy School
- Sean Cleary, Advisor of Club de Madrid, Executive vice-chair of the FutureWorld Foundation, Member of the Carnegie Council’s Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative’s Board of Advisors
- Tran Dinh Thien, Professor, Senior Advisor to Vietnamese Prime Minister
