by Editor | Jan 6, 2020 | News
AI is rapidly spreading throughout civilization, where it has the promise of doing everything from enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate the streets to making more accurate hurricane forecasts. On an everyday level, AI figures out what ads to show you on the web, and powers those friendly chatbots that pop up when you visit an e-commerce website to answer your questions and provide customer service. And AI-powered personal assistants in voice-activated smart home devices perform myriad tasks, from controlling our TVs and doorbells to answering trivia questions and helping us find our favorite songs.
But we’re just getting started with it. As AI technology grows more sophisticated and capable, it’s expected to massively boost the world’s economy, creating about $13 trillion worth of additional activity by 2030, according to a McKinsey Global Institute forecast.
“AI is still early in adoption, but adoption is accelerating and it is being used across all industries,” says Sarah Gates, an analytics platform strategist at SAS, a global software and services firm that focuses upon turning data into intelligence for clients.
According to Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), AI technology can be a force for helping people achieve well-being and happiness, unleash their potential, obtain greater freedom, relieve them of resource constraints and arbitrary/inflexible rules and processes, and solve important issues, such as SDGs.
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by Editor | Jan 6, 2020 | News
The Brazilian government has taken another step towards the creation of public policies around artificial intelligence (AI).
A national AI strategy will be created as a response to the worldwide race for leadership in the field and the need to discuss the future of work, education, tax, research and development as well as ethics as the application of related technologies becomes more pervasive.
A public consultation has been launched to gather input around how AI can solve the country’s main issues, identify priority areas of focus for the development and use of the technologies, as well as limits for it.
According to the summary on the purpose of the consultation, which ends on January 31, 2020, the government understands that AI can bring improvements to the country’s competitiveness and productivity, as well as the provision of public services, quality of life and to reduce social inequality in the southern hemisphere’s biggest economy.
Brazil adheres to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s human-centred AI Principles, which provide for recommendations around areas such as transparency and explainability.
Regarding to Artificial Intelligence for Government, Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) established AI World Society (AIWS) to design Government AIWS Ethics and Practices Index for tracking the AI government activities in terms of transparency, regulation, promotion and implementation for constructive use of AI.
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by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
On Global Cybersecurity Day December 12, 2019, at Loeb House, Harvard University, Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, a co-founder of the AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network, presented updated ideas of the AIWS Social Contract 2020.
The AIWS Social Contract 2020 will be officially launched and presented at AIWS Summit 2020, April 28-29, 2020 at Harvard University. This event will be co-organized by the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, the largest forum of more than 100 head of states, head of governments of democracy countries, including Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, etc.
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by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
On Global Cybersecurity Day, December 12, at Loeb House, Harvard University, at the launching of AI World Society (AIWS) Innovation Network, the Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade, Government of Massachusetts, Mr. Nam Pham, congratulated AIWS Innovation Network and spoke on AI and cybersecurity. The Government of Massachusetts is one of the sponsors of AIWS Innovation Network.
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by Editor | Dec 30, 2019 | News
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) greatly thank you for your significant contributions to BGF and MDI crucial initiative in 2019 such as AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network. We wish you and your family a very Happy New Year. We look forward to welcome you to AIWS Summit on April 28-29, 2020 at Harvard University. The event is co-organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum with participation of head of states, governments, and distinguished thinkers, to discuss about AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network. Governor Michael Dukakis and President Danilo Turk are the co-chairs of the AIWS Summit 2020.
