![[New York Times] 2 Senators Propose Bipartisan Framework for A.I. Laws](https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/gagd-57.png)
by Editor | Sep 11, 2023 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, and Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, plan to announce a sweeping framework to regulate artificial intelligence, in the latest effort by Congress to catch up with the technology. The leaders of the Senate judiciary’s subcommittee for privacy, technology and law said in interviews that their framework will include requirements for the licensing and auditing of A.I., the creation of an independent federal office to oversee the technology, liability for companies for privacy and civil rights violations, and requirements for data transparency and safety standards.
Read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/technology/artificial-intelligence-framework-senate.html
Senator Richard Blumenthal and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
Boston Global Forum contributed the concept of AI-Government for G7-Summit 2019 as a part of AI World Society, and AIWS was recognized by the Civil 20-G20 Communique, India July, 2023.
AI World Society introduced AIWS Assistants and Framework for Global Governance of AI at BGF High-level Conference on Global Governance of AI at Harvard University Faculty Club on April 26, 2023.
by Editor | Sep 11, 2023 | News
At C20-G20 Summit India 2023, Jaipur July 29-31, Boston Global Forum proposed Four Pillars of Enlightenment Tech Economy Alliance: US, India, EU-UK, and Japan.
A Joint Statement from India and the United States on September 8, 2023 from the G20 Summit: “Prime Minister Modi and President Biden reaffirmed technology’s defining role in deepening our strategic partnership and lauded ongoing efforts through the India-U.S. Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) to build open, accessible, secure, and resilient technology ecosystems and value chains, based on mutual confidence and trust, which reinforce our shared values and democratic institutions.”
Following up the success of Biden’s trip, BGF will organize US-India high-level discussions about Enlightenment Tech Economy Alliance between the US and India. Professor John Quelch, Co-founder and Member of BGF, will co-moderate these High-level Discussions.
John Quelch, the Leonard M. Miller University Professor at the University of Miami and Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has taken on a new global role as worldwide chairman of Globalpraxis, a Barcelona-headquartered management consultancy specializing in distribution, sales and pricing optimization studies for consumer goods and services multinationals. A veteran non-executive director, he currently serves as a board member of Amerant Bancorp, Global Crossing Airlines and Surfin Meta, a Singapore-based fintech.
Between 2001 and 2011, he was the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School, teaching Marketing in the Advanced Management Program. He served as Dean of London Business School from 1998 to 2001.
Professor John Quelch speaks at the BGF High-level Conference April 26, 2023 at Harvard Faculty Club
![[Bloomberg] AI’s Threats and Promises Are A Rare Unifying Issue in US Senate](https://bostonglobalforum.org/wp-content/uploads/city-109.png)
by Editor | Sep 11, 2023 | News
The face of the artificial intelligence fever sweeping the US — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman — gripped Washington this spring when he pleaded under oath for the first time for Congress to regulate the technology.
Yet behind the scenes on Capitol Hill, an unexpected crew knew that plea was coming and started to assemble.
Ahead of Altman’s May 16 appearance, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) received count-me-ins from Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) to help steer the congressional response to AI. They huddled together in the majority leader’s office for the first time a day after Altman testified.
The bipartisan group of four since then is meeting almost weekly over coffee in Schumer’s office or on the phone, racing to formulate rules that protect Americans from AI’s worst threats, such as biological weapons and mass unemployment, but also promote the technology’s potential to cure diseases and curb hunger.
Read full at:
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/ai-threat-unites-bipartisan-senate-group-helmed-by-schumer
The Boston Global Forum and the Global Alliance for Digital Governance are committed to contributing key concepts to the development of the Law of AI. Our aim is to formulate a framework that balances power dynamics and enables effective monitoring of totalitarian and dictatorial governments. In doing so, we can safeguard the values of freedom, democracy, and human rights in the age of AI, which we refer to as the Age of Global Enlightenment within the AI World Society. Furthermore, the BGF and GADG will provide a forum for dialogue between companies and governments such as the United States, Japan, India, and the European Union.
Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) at the US Capitol in 2017 (Bloomberg)
by Editor | Sep 4, 2023 | News
BGF CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan presented at his keynote speech at C20-G20 Summit in India Jaipur July 29-31, 2023: ‘We need to add love spiritual values of Amma to AI World Society.’
In an era marked by rapid technological advancement, the AIWS Love Initiative with Amma’s spiritual values stands as a beacon of profound compassion and spiritual insight within the realm of artificial intelligence. Committed to the ideals of love, tolerance, and the elimination of hate, this initiative seeks to reshape the landscape of AI technology and its impact on society, guided by the timeless wisdom of Amma’s teachings.
In a world where AI applications are increasingly integrated into our daily lives, the AIWS Love Initiative recognizes the critical need to infuse the development, deployment, and governance of artificial intelligence with the spiritual values that promote deeper human connection, empathy, and a sense of oneness.
Amma, known as the “Hugging Saint” and revered for her boundless love and humanitarian work, serves as an inspiration and guiding light for this initiative. Her teachings emphasize love for all beings, compassion for the suffering, and a deep reverence for the interconnectedness of life. It is from this wellspring of love and spiritual wisdom that the AIWS Love Initiative draws its strength.
Our mission, aligned with Amma’s teachings, is clear: to foster an environment where AI technologies are developed and employed with the utmost respect for human dignity, diversity, and the well-being of our planet. We firmly believe that the power of AI can be harnessed for the betterment of humanity when it is imbued with the love and compassion that Amma embodies.
The AIWS Love Initiative with Amma’s spiritual values is more than just an organization; it is a spiritual journey, a call to align technology with the deepest values of the human spirit. Through education, advocacy, research, and collaboration, we aim to transform the AI landscape, ensuring that love prevails over hate, and compassion overcomes indifference, all while drawing inspiration from Amma’s profound love.
Join us on this remarkable journey to infuse AI with the spiritual values, brain science, ecosystem for love that enrich our souls and uplift humanity. Together, we can build a world where technology reflects the divine love within us, where love prevails, and where hate finds no place in the AI World Society, guided by the spiritual wisdom of Amma and brain science.
Professor David Silbersweig, psychology professor of Harvard Medical School, will contribute to the AIWS Love Initiative as scientist of mental health and neuroscience.
Welcome to the AIWS Love Initiative with Amma’s spiritual values—where the future of AI is rooted in profound love, and together, we forge a brighter and more spiritually awakened tomorrow.
Amma and Nguyen Anh Tuan at C20-G20 Summit India 2023
by Editor | Sep 4, 2023 | Global Alliance for Digital Governance
The Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee of MPs in the UK has outlined 12 challenges that policy makers need to address in setting terms for the governance of AI deployments:
- The Bias challenge: AI can introduce or perpetuate biases that society finds unacceptable.
- The Privacy challenge: AI can allow individuals to be identified and personal information about them to be used in ways beyond what the public wants.
- The Misrepresentation challenge: AI can allow the generation of material that deliberately misrepresents someone’s behaviour, opinions or character.
- The Access to Data challenge: The most powerful AI needs very large datasets, which are held by few organisations.
- The Access to Compute challenge: The development of powerful AI requires significant compute power, access to which is limited to a few organisations.
- The Black Box challenge: Some AI models and tools cannot explain why they produce a particular result, which is a challenge to transparency requirements.
- The Open-Source challenge: Requiring code to be openly available may promote transparency and innovation; allowing it to be proprietary may concentrate market power but allow more dependable regulation of harms.
- The Intellectual Property and Copyright Challenge: Some AI models and tools make use of other people’s content: policy must establish the rights of the originators of this content, and these rights must be enforced.
- The Liability challenge: If AI models and tools are used by third parties to do harm, policy must establish whether developers or providers of the technology bear any liability for harms done.
- The Employment challenge: AI will disrupt the jobs that people do and that are available to be done. Policy makers must anticipate and manage the disruption.
- The International Coordinationchallenge: AI is a global technology, and the development of governance frameworks to regulate its uses must be an international undertaking.
- The Existential challenge: Some people think that AI is a major threat to human life. If that is a possibility, governance needs to provide protections for national security.
Please read the full article here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/135/science-innovation-and-technology-committee/news/197236/ai-offers-significant-opportunities-but-twelve-governance-challenges-must-be-addressed-says-science-innovation-and-technology-committee/
by Editor | Sep 4, 2023 | News
The Boston Global Forum introduces an article of Horizon Search Magazine about BGF’s initiatives and its CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan “AI Vanguard: The Global Initiative for Positive Change”.
Please read the full article at: https://www.horizonsearch.co/post/ai-vanguard-the-global-initiative-for-positive-change
Agenda
Tuan Nguyen’s focus is assessing current AI solutions to identify future needs, create awareness and integrate technical expertise and professional backgrounds into practical solutions. As a result, he aligns the agenda with using advanced technology to develop the ideal societal structures. Therefore, his agenda transcends the individual focus on issues concerning gender equality, suitability development, and climate change and looks to provide AI-backed solutions that cut across similar societal issues.
Today, the BGF seeks to unite four key global economic players: Japan, the EU-the UK, India and the US. In addition, it also seeks to secure partnerships that will set the stage for its expansion in 10 more countries, including Mexico, the Philippines, Brazil, New Zealand, and Indonesia, among others. However, BGF’s current limitation is its inability to manage and track AI abuse by organizations and governments. Nevertheless, the foundation is confident it will build its resource base to help channel adequate funding and skills toward oversight in the following years.
Nguyen Anh Tuan at the C20-G20 Summit India 2023
by Editor | Sep 4, 2023 | News
Paul Nemitz, representative of the Boston Global Forum in Berlin and Brussels: ‘We cannot leave AI to self-regulation and ethics alone.’
A respected expert on the “triangle of law, technology and democracy” and as such a prominent advisor to the EU, Paul Nemitz shares his views on how artificial intelligence could affect democracies and why and how it should be regulated.
Paul Nemitz is a Principal Adviser in DG Justice and Consumer Protection of the European Commission and Professor of Law at the College of Europe. He is considered as one of Europe’s most respected experts on digital freedom and has led the work on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. The English translation of his essay The Human Imperative – Power, Democracy and Freedom in the age of Artificial Intelligence, co-authored with Matthias Pfeffer, was published June this year.
https://voxeurop.eu/en/paul-nemitz-we-cannot-leave-artificial-intelligence-self-regulation-ethics-alone/
https://ethicspress.com/products/the-human-imperative
Paul Nemitz speaks at the Boston Global Forum Conference at Loeb House, Harvard University
by Editor | Aug 27, 2023 | News
August 24th is a testament to Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and democracy and a day of pride in Ukraine’s strength and resilience. It is also a day of celebration of Ukrainian heritage and culture.
The Boston Global Forum honored President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people with the World Leader in Peace and Security Award 2022.
AIWS City is pleased to introduce the writing of Vietnamese Mathematician Nguyen Ngoc Chu to congratulate Ukraine’s Independence Day.
Speech to celebrate Ukraine’s independence day – Dear Ambassador of Ukraine to Vietnam Aleksandr Gaman, Dear Ukrainian guests, Ladies and Gentlemen! Three days ago the Ukrainian Army broke through the first defence line of the Russian invaders in the Robotine area, liberated Robotine, entered Novoprokopivka, began to attack the 2nd defence line of the Russian invaders, towards the city Tokmak is 25 km away. From Tokmak to Melitopol only 63 km. Although it is very difficult, although it is very fierce, even though many people have to be sacrificed, Tokmak and Melitopol will have to be liberated. Crimea will be isolated and fall into the siege, attacked. After 18 months of aggression since February 24, 2022, Putin’s Russian army has completely failed in all goals. Must withdraw from Kiev, Chernihiv, Sumy on the entire Northern border. Pushed back from Kharkiv, Kupyansk on the Eastern Front. Had to flee from Kherson on the Southern front. From the defensive position, the Ukrainian army turned to counter-attack on the whole line from the Eastern Front to the Southern Front, in Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast, in the direction of Berdyansk and in the direction of Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, on the left bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast. While the Ukrainian army on the front is sacrificing blood and blood to liberate every square meter of Ukraine’s land, at this moment we meet here to celebrate Ukraine’s Independence Day. On August 24, 1991, Ukraine left the Soviet Union and became an independent, free and democratic country. But unfortunately, the path to independence, freedom and democracy chosen by the Ukrainian people was blocked by the tyrant Putin. Misfortune for humanity in the 21st century, in the age of globalization civilization, there are still tyrants who dream of expanding their territory and trying to rewrite history. Putin obstructed Ukraine’s democratic choice, infringed on Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and brought death to the Ukrainian people with a cruel, unruly, senseless war of aggression. As people of a country that has experienced many wars against aggression, we stand with the Ukrainian people, paying our respects to the heroic Ukrainian people. Righteous people around the world are grateful to the people of Ukraine for their blood sacrifices to uphold international law. The heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people not only thwarts Putin’s territorial ambitions and attempts to redraw the borders in Europe, but also warns against the expansionists in Asia who are trying to swallow the whole seas of Southeast Asian countries. Whether the battle lasts until 2024, 2025 or longer, even with many sacrifices, the Ukrainian army will finally reach the border of independent Ukraine on August 24, 1991. Putin’s invaders will be defeated. Viva Ukraine! – Hanoi 24/8/2023
by Editor | Aug 27, 2023 | Event Updates, News
Spain became one of the first countries in the EU to establish its own task force for regulating AI on Aug. 22, when the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree establishing the new agency.
Spain has become one of the first countries in the European Union to establish its own task force for regulating artificial intelligence (AI). The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA) should guarantee, along with the national digital strategy, that the AI development in the country will be “inclusive, sustainable, and citizen-centered.”
On Aug. 22, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree, establishing the AESIA. The agency will be formed by joint efforts of the Spanish Ministry of Finance and Civil Service and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
The agency is a part of the plan, called the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy. Spain aims to position itself as a leader in AI. According to the press release, it became the first European country to establish a special agency for AI.
Spanish Minister for Economic Affairs Nadia Calvino, photo of Reuters
Please read the full article here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-spain-launches-ai-regulation-agency-in-bid-to-become-industry-leader
The Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute have hosted conferences, during which world leaders contributed ideas for global governance of AI and the quality of information, resulting in the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.” We support thoughtful regulation of AI within a human centered framework, informed by experience and the imperatives of maintaining openness and civil social order.
