Ramu Damodaran, co-chair of UN Centennial Initiative, the first Chief of UN Academic Impact, and a Distinguished Contributor of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, presented opening remarks at BGF online high-level panel “Peace for the Global Enlightenment Age: Technology for Peace” on September 21, 2022, an event of United Nations Centennial Initiative.
“Colleges and universities face severe challenges in preserving a secure research environment,” writes Inside Higher Ed, which, in the last two years, along with other news outlets, has “reported a surge in ransomware attacks, causing significant operational and financial costs to the targeted institutions. Cyberhackers attack higher ed institutions for various reasons, including stealing intellectual property, gaining bragging rights about hacking into high profile institutions and extorting institutions for money. Studies have shown that nearly three-quarters of ransomware attacks on higher ed institutions succeeded — making this a real threat to nearly all types of colleges.
A webcast on October 4 (https://bit.ly/3BTRtrw) will explore the following topics:
• Overview of cybersecurity efforts and recent high-profile attacks in higher ed
• The specific security challenges colleges and universities face
• Measures that appear to be limiting cyber hacks”
AIWS.net includes news reports, analysis and reflections by distinguished thinkers and innovators supporting innovations and solutions for “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and the United Nations Centennial initiative, looking at how the world might be in 2045 when the global organization completes a hundred years.
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) organized an online high-level panel “Peace for the Global Enlightenment Age: Technology for Peace” on September 21, 2022. Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary – General, Technology Envoy Technology, United Nations presented the keynote speech at the event.
MIT Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, a Distinguished Contributor of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, presented his keynote speech “Data for Peace” at the event:
His powerpoint can be viewed here.
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. The Boston Global Forum (BGF) organized an online high-level panel “Peace for the Global Enlightenment Age: Technology for Peace” on September 21, 2022. Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary – General, Envoy on Technology, United Nations presented the keynote speech at the event.
The Special Competitive Studies Project released report “Mid-Decade Challenges to National Security” at https://www.scsp.ai/reports/mid-decade-challenges-for-national-competitiveness/
The report outlines the stakes of the U.S.-China technology competition and presents an agenda to strengthen U.S. competitiveness. It elevates issues that merit the nation’s attention to ensure we improve the U.S. position by 2025, and identifies the technology areas where the US must act by 2030 to retain our advantage.
On September 16, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan gave a keynote speech at the Special Competitive Studies Project Global Emerging Technologies Summit.
He highlighted the need to recharge the engine of American technological dynamism and innovation, especially in these foundational sectors.
Over the last year, the Biden Administration has made historic investments, and not just in basic research. We are investing in industries of the future and strengthening the resilience and security of the supply chains that underpin them.
Over the past month alone, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act, an Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation, and the Inflation Reduction Act.
The CHIPS Act invests $52 billion to restore U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing and R&D and reduce our overreliance on foreign-produced chips.
It is an investment larger than the real cost of the Manhattan Project. On top of this, it also authorizes the largest single-year percentage increase in overall federal funding of basic scientific research in seventy years.
The Global Alliance for Digital Governance, established by the Boston Global Forum in September 2021, will play a role as a global network of allies and partners share US strategic concerns and are committed to deepening cooperation.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 2022 BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, and President of Finland Sauli Niinisto, 2018 BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, discussed the countries’ defense cooperation and visa restrictions for Russian citizens.
The head of state wrote about this on Twitter, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
“I informed the President of Finland about the current situation at the front. We discussed further defense cooperation between Ukraine and Finland. I thanked for the assistance,” Zelenskyy wrote.
In addition, according to him, the parties touched upon the issue of visa restrictions for citizens of the Russian Federation.
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect COVID-19 infection in people’s voices by means of a mobile phone app, according to research to be presented on 5 September at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain. It was especially noteworthy as the presentation by Ms Wafaa Aljbawi, a researcher at the Institute of Data Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, came during “Women in Medicine” month observed by the American Medical Association.
AIWS.net includes news reports, analysis and reflections by distinguished thinkers and innovators supporting innovations and solutions for “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and the United Nations Centennial initiative, looking at how the world might be in 2045 when the global organization completes a hundred years.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the second draft of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Management Framework (RMF) for comment. Comments are due by September 29, 2022.
The AI RMF was designed and is intended for voluntary use to address potential risks in “the design, development, use and evaluation of AI products, services and systems.” NIST envisions the AI RMF to be a “living document” that will be updated regularly as technology and approaches to AI reliability to evolve and change over time.
The Global Alliance for Digital Governance (GADG) was established through a collaboration of the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid at the Policy Lab on September 7-9, 2021.
GADG do:
Coordinate resources: governments, international organizations, corporations, think tanks, civil society, and influencers for AI and a digital sphere for good, to make these resources more effective, to synthesize and maximize their impact, and to create more implementation-oriented conferences.
Protect fundamental values and standards proposed in Social Contract for the AI Age, in AI International Accord and in the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2022/08/18/AI_RMF_2nd_draft.pdf
On the morning of September 5, 2022, the leaders of AIWS City attended the Opening Ceremony Academic Year 2022-2023 of the School of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Vietnam National University at Hanoi.
The Boston Global Forum CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan and Harvard Medical School Professor David Silbersweig, co-founders of AIWS City, presented speeches at the Opening Ceremony.
Professor David Silbersweig and Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan wish the students success in their studies, becoming future intellectuals, thinkers, leaders and creators.
View the speech by Professor David Silbersweig here: https://vlabinnovation.com/videos/
