Pictures of “US-EU-Japan-India: the Pillars for World Peace and Security” at the Riga Conference 2022
Highlights of US-EU-Japan-India: the Pillars for World Peace and Security Initiative
Global Enlightenment Leaders: Governor Michael Dukakis, BGF’s CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, MIT professors Alex Sandy Pentland and Nazli Choucri, Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlanic Organization (LATO) Zaneta Ozolina, and former Japanese State Minister of Defense Yasuhide Nakayama, spoke at the Session “US-EU-Japan-India: the Pillars for world peace and security” at the Riga Conference 2022. Some highlights of the initiative are:
- Concepts:
- To create innovative and technologically advanced economies as models for the world. They are pillars of innovation and the tech economy.
- To uphold the norms, standards, and values required for world peace and security
- To apply and expand the norms, standards, and values to nations who accept the opportunity, commitment, and values that they represent.
- Roles, voices, impacts, decisions of each pillar depend on their contributions in building US-EU-Japan-India Pillars for World Peace and Security, and then apply and expand to nations who accepts this model and paradigm to join and become a Pillar nation for World Peace and Security.
- Fundamental:
- Standards, Norms and Values: As provided by UN conventions and the Boston Global Forum’s Social Contract for the AI Age and AIWS Values
- Economy:
- US-EU-Japan-India Pillars dominate tech and innovative economy.
- Every individual become innovators in the Global Enlightenment Age. Communities and citizens as sources of innovation
- Building innovation communities of these Pillars. Create a new economy model of collaboration public-private for maximum resources, faster, smarter, more effective and more innovative. Economic system rooted in public-private collaboration to encourage innovation and expand applications of technology.
- Protect peace and security:
- Support and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, and cyber security of all nations.
- Promote and protect standards and values between pillars and in all nations.
- Education:
- Create the Innovation Program in the Global Enlightenment Age for all people:
- Social Contract for the AI Age and AIWS Values
- World History: concise, true, independent, and scientific
- Innovation ecosystem where everyone can become an innovator. Strengthen communities and individuals’ capacity for innovation
- Art and Music: Symphonies and Chamber Music, art and music for Peace and Reconciliation
- Deepen respect for and understanding of nations’ cultures, histories, and peoples
Conservationists are using AI to map out the best ways for saving threatened wildlife and resources
“Observational skills (which) expert trackers wielded took years to develop. So Jewell, a cofounder of the US nonprofit WildTrack, turned to artificial intelligence to help identify animal tracks using photos. Reading those signs is something AI can help humans do. This kind of heavy-duty data crunching is happening more often across conservation programs globally. These efforts are making it easier to monitor, understand, and even predict conservation challenges.”
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Global Alliance for Digital Governance will contribute to coordinate the digital economy of Pillars for World Peace and Security
On Oct. 22, at the session “US-EU-Japan-India: the Pillars for World Peace and Security” of the Riga Conference 2022, Boston Global Forum’s CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan presented strategies to build US-EU-Japan-India to become pillars for world peace and security. He highlighted the role of the Global Alliance for Digital Governance in coordinating digital resources of the US, EU, India, Japan to build advanced tech economy to compete with China. Some strategies are:
- Foster agreements and cooperation on innovation and technological progress among the US, EU, Japan, and India.
- Create a common market for mutual benefit, for innovative economy, special for tech economy.
- Create a network of distinguished thinkers, innovators, business leaders, policymakers, and decision makers to solve challenges. Consider AIWS.net as a solution for this special network.
- Global Alliance for Digital Governance to contribute solutions to solve challenges and coordinate digital resources.
Rome-Boston-Tokyo will introduce and discuss Manifesto “Tech for Peace in the Global Enlightenment Age” on October 25, 2022
Rome will together with Boston and Tokyo announce the first draft of the Manifesto “Tech for Peace in the Global Enlightenment Age” on October 25 at John Cabot University.
This Manifesto as a part of the United Nations Centennial Initiative and support of Under-Secretary-General, Tech Envoy Amandeep Gill.
Speakers:
Francesco Lapenta, the Founding Director of the John Cabot University Institute of Future and Innovation Studies
Franco Pavoncello, President of John Cabot University
Governor Michael Dukakis, Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988
Ramu Damodaran, Co-chair of United Nations Centennial Initiative
Zlatko Lagumdzija, former Prime Minister of Bosnia & Herzegovina
Mats Karlsson, former Vice President of World Bank
Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Boston Global Forum
Yasuhide Nakayama, former Japanese State Minister of Defense
Kazuo Yano, Chief Scientist of Hitachi
Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT Professor
Zaneta Ozolina, Professor and Chairwoman of LATO and Riga Conference
Roland Schatz, CEO of Media Tenor and Founder and CEO UNGSII Foundation
Allain Cyntryn, Former CTO of Goldman Sachs
After this BGF-John Cabot University conference, the Manifesto will be continually discussed, and the official version will be presented on Global Cybersecurity Day December 12, 2022 at Loeb House, Harvard University, together with the World Leader Award in AIWS.
BGF High Level Meeting to build US-EU-Japan-India Pillars for World Peace and Security
At Governor Michael Dukakis’ Estate on October 13, BGF Leaders met and discussed to build US-EU-Japan-India pillars for World Peace and Security. Those that were present are:
- Former Vice President of World Bank Mats Karlsson, Representative of BGF in Stockholm and London
- Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, Representative of BGF in the Balkans
- Former Japanese State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, BGF Coordinator of Global Alliance for Digital Governance in Japan and Taiwan
- MIT Professor Nazli Choucri
- MIT Professor Alex Pentland
- Harvard Professor Thomas Patterson
- Harvard Professor David Silbersweig
- CEO of BGF Nguyen Anh Tuan
They proposed for the first draft “US-EU-Japan-India Pillars for World Peace and Security.” This draft will be presented by Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan at the Riga Conference 2022 on October 22, 2022. Then, the co-authors will continue to discuss and complete it for the official version to present at the BGF Conference on November 23, 2022 at Loeb House, Harvard University.
Opensource Software for SDG
“This challenge is the second event under the initiative of OSS4SDGs – Open Source Soſtware for Sustainable Development Goals – a joint collaboration between the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics and United Nations Office of Information, Communications and Technology. The goal of the event is to tackle SDG 11 “Sustainable Cities & Communities.”
The selected open-source community will be OpenStreetMap (OSM) since the open source platform is broadly used by the United Nations and European Union teams.”
https://ideas.unite.un.org/sdg11/Page/Overview?mc_cid=f7dda37d7c&mc_eid=7eb0d8e81c
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An AI Bill of Rights Must be Global
By Michael Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Alex Pentland
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems are increasingly affecting our daily lives. Banking algorithms decide who is eligible for housing or financial loans, healthcare algorithms are making decisions on coverage and standard of care. Companies are using hiring algorithms to sort resumes for potential employees. While all of these innovations make life more convenient, they pose risks to the public and are often rife with bias and discrimination.
Further, there has been substantial investment in the development and adoption of AI, but nowhere near as much money or energy has been put toward safeguards or protection, regulations or even a standard code of ethics.
Earlier this month, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” one that aims to ensure the use of AI is fair, equitable and nondiscriminatory. As members of the Boston Global Forum, we applaud President Biden and the OSTP for advancing this important measure which protects people from threats and defines guardrails on technology to reinforce civil rights, civil liberties and privacy, and equal opportunities ensuring access to critical resources and services.
The Blueprint outlines five common-sense protections with respect to AI to which all citizens should be entitled:
- AI should be safe and effective;
- It shouldn’t discriminate;
- It shouldn’t violate data privacy;
- We should know when AI is being used;
- We should be able to opt out and talk to a human when we encounter a problem.
It’s not binding legislation, but rather a set of recommendations for government agencies and technology companies using AI. It’s also a great tool to educate the public as well as organizations responsible for protecting and advancing our civil rights and civil liberties.
This is a necessary first step for our country, but the effort must be a global one.
On the world stage, bad actors in other nations are increasingly using AI to spread disinformation and propaganda through deep fakes and other manipulated media – all of which are in direct conflict to the values of democracy and freedom.
Last year, the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid brought prominent international leaders together to explore ideas and strategies and for a Global Law and Accord on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Rights.
The group established the Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) to coordinate resources among governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make the resources more effective to synthesize and maximize their impact. It is not an organization, but rather, a network for sharing resources and cooperating among governments. At the core of this imperative is to establish a common understanding of policy and practice, anchored in general principles to help maximize the “good” and minimize the “bad” associated with AI:
- Fairness and justice for all: The first principle is already agreed upon in the international community as a powerful aspiration. It is the expectation of all entities – private and public – to treat, and be treated, with fairness and justice.
- Responsibility and accountability for policy and decision making —private and public: The second principle recognizes the power of the new global ecology that will increasingly span all entities worldwide—private and public, developing and developed.
- Precautionary principle for innovations and applications: The third principle is well established internationally. It does not impede innovation but supports it. It does not push for regulation but supports initiatives to explore the unknown with care and caution.
- Ethics-in-AI: Fourth is the principle of ethical integrity—for the present and the future. Different cultures and countries may have different ethical systems, but everyone, everywhere recognizes and adopts some basic ethical precepts. At issue is incorporating the commonalities into a global ethical system for all phases, innovations, and manifestations of artificial intelligence
At home and abroad, we must move toward a framework, an ecosystem, and a social contract for the AI age. Without adequate guidelines and useful directives, the undisciplined use of AI poses risks to the wellbeing of individuals and creates fertile ground for economic, political, social, and criminal exploitation. As we gain consensus on principles and practices among members of the global society, we will generate and enhance social benefits and wellbeing for all, shared by all.
Koichi Hamada join the Shinzo Abe Initiative Board
Professor Koichi Hamada is a world-leading expert on international economics and the Japanese economy. He has had a distinguished career as an internationally renowned economics professor, an economic adviser to the Japanese government and as an economic consultant to the IMF and WTO. He is Special Economic Adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Yale University and Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Tokyo.
He is credited as one of the key architects of Abenomics, economic policies based upon “three arrows” of monetary easing, fiscal stimulus and structural reform.
Professor Koichi Hamada was a speaker at BGF conferences and officially joins the Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security Board.
