by Editor | Feb 28, 2021 | News
As usual this year, Michael Dukakis Institute sponsors the AI World Executive Summit July 14, 2021. The AI World Society City (AIWS City) of Michael Dukakis Institute will be a strategic alliance partner of this event.
This year’s AI World Executive Summit: The Future of AI will help keep people ahead of the curve and focus on how the best and brightest enterprises are truly innovating and achieving high-performance results from AI.
There is a special session at AI World Executive Summit – “AIWS City, a city for 100 years of the United Nations”
Speakers: Vint Cerf, father of Internet; Governor Michael Dukakis; Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact, Editor in Chief of United Nations Chronicle Magazine; Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School; Professor John Quelch, Harvard Business School; and Mr. Bui Thanh Nhon, Chairman of Novaland.
Read more about the Summit here.
by Editor | Feb 28, 2021 | News
Now, leaders of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS.net) are nominating persons to honor World Leader in AI World Society Award 2021. The first recipient was Angel Gurria, Secretary General of OECD for 2018, the second recipient was father of Internet Vint Cerf for 2019, and the third and most recent recipient was Professor Judea Pearl, UCLA, for 2020.
The World Leader in AI World Society Award 2021 will be presented at the Quad Roundtable on AI International Accord in late April 2021.
World Leader in AI World Society is a part of AIWS.net. Winners of this award will become a member of board of leaders of AIWS.net, the network of more than 100,000 professors, scholars, innovators, and experts of top universities across the world.
by Editor | Feb 28, 2021 | Event Updates
On 9:00 EST/15:00 CET/17:00 MSK, Saturday, March 6, 2021, the co-author of the Social Contract for the AI Age, Member of the History of AI Board, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, will teach AIWS Leadership Master Degree Program. This program is a part of the cooperation between Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University ETU “LETI” and AIWS University of Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation. He will speak about building AI International Accord, and its challenges and obstacles. Students will be attending to learn the process to build the framework of AI International Accord and practice how to convince governments accept the framework.
Professor Dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija was Prime Minister, Acting Prime Minister, twice Deputy Prime Minister, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a Member of the Parliament and the leader of the largest multi-ethnic political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 2015. Member of Club de Madrid-The World Leadership Alliance and World Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founder of the Shared Societies and Values Foundation Sarajevo. Since 1989, Dr. Lagumdžija is professor of Management and Information Technologies at University of Sarajevo, and visiting professor of different universities in Europe, Asia and America. Member of numerous International Boards and Missions. Ambassador for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations of ISESCO.
by Editor | Feb 21, 2021 | News
As the place to host online significant and prestigious events, on February 19, 2021, the AIWS Palace at AIWS City hosted its first Panel for AI International Intelligence (AIIA).
The preeminent speakers present were Governor Michael Dukakis; former Latvian and Club de Madrid President Vaira Vike-Freiberga; former Prime Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zlatko Lagumdzija; Japanese State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama; Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT; Merve Hitkok, the founder of AIEthicist and one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021; and Andrew W. Wyckoff, the Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI).
The moderator of the Panel for AI International Accord was Douglas Frantz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and former Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD. Frantz served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Obama administration.
by Editor | Feb 21, 2021 | News
President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, World Leader for Peace and Cybersecurity Award gave a broad overview of the essential concerns that face us in connection with an AI International Accord. Some principles or guidelines for the strongest nations should be developed – civil society needs to continue to have a voice and think tanks like the MDI should work towards a new Social Contract to insure this. Furthermore, the general economy and human rights are two main concerns in regards to AI. The awareness and interest of society needs to be captured to invoke long term thinking in regards to AI.
Professor Choucri started by touching on challenges, opportunities and imperatives that AI poses.
Challenges
- How to establish stable principles and processes in a context that is rapidly changing
- No longer just governments, also private sectors, NGOs and individuals
Opportunities
- Figuring out what has worked best when, how and why in regards to international agreements and frameworks?
- Lines of cleavages have not yet been drawn, it is still fluid. We have potential to find ways to cooperate and transform these cleavages
Imperatives
- Governments do not really control AI realm, there are also many private actors
- How to regulate without dampening innovation
She ended by stating that the most immediate path is to take into account and connect with other constituencies that like us are trying to respond to AI reality, that we need a multi-stakeholder support system.
