by Editor | Sep 6, 2020 | News
Club de Madrid, in partnership with the Boston Global Forum, and with the generous support of Tram Huong Khanh Hoa Company (ATC), presents a Policy Lab will be analysing challenges to digital and AI governance from a transatlantic perspective and offer actionable policy solutions as we consider the need to build a new social contract that will adequately tackle these challenges.
Leaders of the Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, such as Governor Michael Dukakis, Father of the Internet Vint Cerf, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Marc Rotenberg, professors Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, David Silbersweig, Alex Pentland, will attend and present the Social Contract 2020 at this special event on 16-18 September 2020.
By contrasting North American and European best practices and perspectives, Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum aim to delve into innovative ideas and formulate actionable policy recommendations and consider the need to build a new social contract that will adequately tackle the challenges raised by artificial intelligence and digital governance. Both organizations will look to identify ways of engaging technological companies in public policy making while protecting the democratic mandate, which guarantees policies that serve the general interest, rather than that of fewer actors.
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by Editor | Sep 6, 2020 | Event Updates
Club de Madrid, in partnership with the Boston Global Forum, presents a Policy Lab to analyze current global challenges from a transatlantic perspective and offer ensuing policy solutions on digital technologies and artificial intelligence. This is a special 3-day event from September 16-18, 2020 with attendance of political leaders, distinguished thinkers, and innovators. The Boston Global Forum will launch and present “the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” and the AIWS City at this event.
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, author of “Deep Thinking” is a speaker at “Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance – A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence” Conference.
World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) is the largest worldwide assembly of political leaders working to strengthen democratic values, good governance and the well-being of citizens across the globe.
As a non-profit, non-partisan, international organization, its network is composed of more than 100 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from over 70 countries, together with a global body of advisors and expert practitioners, who offer their voice and agency on a pro bono basis, to today’s political, civil society leaders and policymakers. WLA-CdM responds to a growing demand for trusted advice in addressing the challenges involved in achieving democracy that delivers, building bridges, bringing down silos and promoting dialogue for the design of better policies for all.
by Editor | Sep 6, 2020 | News
Researchers train a model to reach human-level performance at recognizing abstract concepts in video.
The ability to reason abstractly about events as they unfold is a defining feature of human intelligence. We know instinctively that crying and writing are means of communicating, and that a panda falling from a tree and a plane landing are variations on descending.
Organizing the world into abstract categories does not come easily to computers, but in recent years researchers have inched closer by training machine learning models on words and images infused with structural information about the world, and how objects, animals, and actions relate. In a new study at the European Conference on Computer Vision this month, researchers unveiled a hybrid language-vision model that can compare and contrast a set of dynamic events captured on video to tease out the high-level concepts connecting them.
Their model did as well as or better than humans at two types of visual reasoning tasks — picking the video that conceptually best completes the set, and picking the video that doesn’t fit. Shown videos of a dog barking and a man howling beside his dog, for example, the model completed the set by picking the crying baby from a set of five videos. Researchers replicated their results on two datasets for training AI systems in action recognition: MIT’s Multi-Moments in Time and DeepMind’s Kinetics.
The original article can be found here.
In addition to AI for reasoning, AI and causal inference is also an important topic. Professor Judea Pearl is a pioneer for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2020, Professor Pearl is also awarded as World Leader in AI World Society (AIWS.net) by Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) and Boston Global Forum (BGF). In the future, Professor Judea will also contribute to Causal Inference for AI transparency, which is one of important AIWS topics on AI Ethics.
by Editor | Aug 30, 2020 | News
Paul Nemitz, a member of AIWS Standards Committee, co-author of the AIWS-G7 Summit Initiative 2019, launched his new book “The Human Imperative – Power, Freedom and Democracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.
The book is about power in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It looks at what the new technical powers that have accrued over the last decades mean for the freedom of people and for our democracies. Our starting point is that AI must not be considered in isolation, but rather in a very specific context: the concentration of economic and digital technological power that we see today. Analysis of the effects of AI requires that we take a holistic view of the business models of digital technologies and of the power they exercise today. The rise of technology and the power of control and manipulation associated with it leads, in our firm conviction, to the need to reconsider the principle of the human being, to ensure humans collectively benefit from this technology, that they control it, and that a humane future determined by man remains possible.
by Editor | Aug 30, 2020 | Event Updates
The Policy Lab on Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, will be held in a virtual format over a three-day period between the 16th and the 18th of September, hosted by The World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) and the Boston Global Forum (BGF).
The COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing global health crisis have significantly accelerated the deployment and decentralization of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Their role
in almost every facet of today’s life merits in-depth analysis, particularly timely in the current context, when their use will present us with both challenges and opportunities, concerns and solutions.
Our Policy Lab will bring the governance experience of World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Members, democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from over seventy countries, together with the knowledge of experts and scholars in a multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary platform aimed at generating action-oriented analysis and policy recommendations for the development of a new social contract on digital governance. All this, from a Transatlantic perspective and with the experience of a ravaging, global pandemic that has underlined the need to strengthen international cooperation and the multilateral system as we build a digital future for all. Through the voice and agency of WLA-CdM Members, WLA-CdM and BGF will bring the results of this discussion to the global conversation steered by the UN as part of its 75th anniversary and other major action-oriented discussions taking place on this most pressing topic.
Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet; Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of BGF; the former Prime Minister of Finland, former President of Latvia, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and professors of Harvard and MIT will speak at the Session I: The AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network: A Platform for Transatlantic Cooperation, on September 17th at 9:30 EDT.
