by Editor | Nov 28, 2021 | News
The AI World Society invite all to nominate for the the History of AI Award 2021. The HAI Awards recognizes individuals and achievements in the AI world that are pioneering, meaningful, and influential.
The History of AI 2021 Awards will be featured at the AI World Society City and the History of AI House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet, Vietnam. The AI World Society (AIWS) City, established in collaboration with the World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid, and the United Nations Academic Impact, is a virtual digital city dedicated to the principle of the Social Contract for the AI Age and concepts of the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
The History of AI 2020 Awards for Achievement go to:
AlphaFold – the solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology, developed by DeepMind. “This breakthrough demonstrates the impact AI can have on scientific discovery and its potential to dramatically accelerate progress in some of the most fundamental fields that explain and shape our world.”
Deep Understanding – a concept pioneered by Professor Judea Pearl for the development of AI systems that could minimize the creation of large data sets. Deep understanding challenges the common view that meaningful AI requires intensive data collection.
GPT-3 – a natural language program that produces news articles and technical manuals, creative essays, and computer code often difficult to distinguish from human output. GPT-3 also raises challenging ethical questions about machine-generated text.
Social Contract for the AI Age – a framework for a new social contract to ensure peace, security, and democracy in the modern era. The World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, the largest association of former Presidents and Prime Ministers of democratic governments, have endorsed the Social Contract.
The History of AI 2020 Awards to Individuals go to:
President Ursula von der Leyen – The incoming President of the European Commission, von der Leyen has led efforts to establish a regulatory framework for AI, opposed black box algorithms, and called for a Transatlantic Agreement on Artificial Intelligence, based on democratic values, including “human rights, pluralism, inclusion, and the protection of privacy.”
Joy Boulawamini – a Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab, Buolawamini founded the Algorithmic Justice League to challenge bias in AI systems. In 2020, her research helped persuade Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft to suspend facial recognition technology, one the most controversial applications of AI.
Please send nominations to [email protected], before December 15, 2021.
by Editor | Nov 28, 2021 | News
Former US Acting Secretary of Commerce Cameron Kerry, member of the Board of Leaders of Global Alliance for Digital Governance, will congratulate the 2021 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient Speaker of Swedish Parliament Andreas Norlén, and present concepts of the Framework for Global Law on AI and Digital on Global Cybersecurity Day December 12.
In June 2020, he published report “Bridging the gaps: A path forward to federal privacy legislation”.
In November 2019, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) released the draft United States Consumer Data Privacy Act (USCDPA). As we (Kerry) wrote at the time, these two Senate Commerce Committee proposals “frame[d] the issues for this discussion going into the next session of Congress” and introduced clarity to the broader privacy debate. Although COPRA and USCDPA are promisingly similar in many aspects, stakeholders have staked out polar all-or-nothing positions on the two provisions where Wicker and Cantwell are the furthest apart—preemption and the private right of action. As long as these protagonists remain in their own corners, the broader privacy debate will be frozen and federal legislation stalled.
The report, available for download here, seeks to unfreeze the privacy debate by exploring and offering a middle ground. It proposes solutions on preemption and private lawsuits that depart from the maximalist approaches shaping the current debate.
by Editor | Nov 28, 2021 | News
On December 12, 2021, Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis will present Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, with the Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute’s Annual Award, “World Leader for Peace and Security” for his efforts, in a turbulent political landscape, to enhance transparency, knowledge and public trust in the complicated processes of forming government in Sweden.
On the decision to present this award to Speaker Norlén, Governor Dukakis said that he highly regards Sweden’s effortful contribution to world peace and security with the leadership of the Riksdag under Norlén’s speakership.
In his speech at the AI World Society Summit 2020, Andreas Norlén recognized both the potentials and risks of Artificial Intelligence in governance. Misinformation and disinformation can have adverse effects on governmental processes and democracy, such as skewing public opinion and compromising trust in democracy. He pointed out that increasing public awareness and facilitating cooperation among parties and committees within the parliament can help to harness the power of AI while protecting democracy from the risks. Awareness and cooperation, in turn, can hardly happen without advanced and continuous education and training on the subject of AI.
After serving as member of Parliament for Östergötland County for the Moderate Party, Norlén was elected Speaker of the Riksdag on September 24, 2018. Before that, Norlén served as the Chair of the Committee on the Constitution, the War Delegation, the Committee on Justice, and the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. He has played a pivotal role supporting constitutional matters relating to the media, the auditing of governmental processes, the Riksdag’s work on EU matters and issues concerning privacy.
Norlén worked across party lines to ensure unified support for the conclusions reached by the Committee on the Constitution, regarding its scrutiny of the performance of government ministers and the handling of government business. Norlén has asserted that the practices determined by the Committee on the Constitution should obtain broad support in the Riksdag and remain the same when there is a change in the political majority of the Riksdag. He also worked for broad political consensus in matters such as those affecting the Constitution and preventive measures to counteract violent extremism.
Norlén defended his thesis at Linköping University in 2004 on the subject of Unreasonableness and Section 36 of the Contracts Act and is a Doctor of Laws. Norlén is also a businessperson active in the family publishing company Kurirengruppen i Sverige AB.
The World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2021 reflects BGF’s high regard for Andreas Norlén’s efforts to enhance democracy and public trust in political processes and institutions in Sweden, and our appreciation for his awareness of AI opportunities and risks.
From 2015, BGF honored World Leader for Peace and Security Awards:
Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan 2015
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany 2015
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of United Nations 2016
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia 2017
Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland 2018
Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia and Club de Madrid, 2019
Ursula von der Leyen, President of European Commission 2020
Andreas Norlén, Speaker of Swedish Parliament 2021
After Ceremony to honor Speaker Andreas Norlén is the Symposium
“The Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital”.
Keynote speaker:
Speaker of Swedish Parliament Andreas Norlén
Speakers:
Shinzo Abe, Former Prime Minister of Japan
Nazli Choucri, Professor of MIT
Vilas Dhar, President of Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Eva Kaili, Member of European Parliament
Cameron Kerry, Former US Acting Secretary of Commerce
Zlatko Lagumdzija, Former Prime Minister of Bosnia – Herzegovina, Member of Global Alliance for Digital Governance
Paul Nemitz, Senior Advisor to European Commission
Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum
Please attend and discuss with speakers at BostonGlobalForum.org
December 12, 8:00 – 11:00 AM (EST) / 14:00 – 17:00 (CET)
by Editor | Nov 26, 2021 | News
by Editor | Nov 21, 2021 | News
After the success of AI World Leadership Master Program 2020-2021, the Michael Dukakis Institute will continue cooperating with the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” (ETU.ru) in organizing the AIWS Leadership Master Program 2021-2022.
Students of the program will study concepts from the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, and will be lectured, advised, and mentored by Global Enlightenment Community, made up of distinguished leaders such as former head of states and governments. Students will practice as young leaders to solve issues:
- Misinformation, Disinformation, and Global Enlightenment Education
- The Value System and Innovation Ecosystem of AI World Society (AIWS)
- Building trust between leaders of nations
- The Fundamentals for new international cooperation on the basis of standards of the Social Contract for the AI Age
- Building Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital technologies
- Ensuring responsible and democratic exercise of state power in the AI and digital age
- Building on opportunities in technology and Big Tech companies while addressing their challenges, threats, and dangers.
Students of the AIWS Leadership Master Program will attend activities:
- Dialogues with distinguished figures on Digital Governance, including from governments, companies, think tanks, universities, civil society, influencers, and leaders (former and current political leaders, business leaders, and distinguished thinkers) to build solutions.
- To collect, analyze, and evaluate world conferences and forums on major and hot-button issues around the world such as democracy, governance of AI, Digital technology and climate change among others and create recommendations on the combination and linkage of forums and conferences to create synergies that are more powerful and impactful.
- To create media and communications campaigns for a global public audience.
- Joining the AIWS Leadership Program, from which Michael Dukakis Leadership Fellows are selected.
- Playing important roles in the activities of AIWS City, a digital-virtual city to practice “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”.
- Attending the Festival “Young Leaders of Global Alliance for Digital Governance” and other events of BGF and partners.
by Editor | Nov 21, 2021 | News
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, recipient of the World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2015 and distinguished contributor to the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, will speak at the Symposium “The Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” on Global Cybersecurity Day.
8:00 am – 11:00 am (EST), 14:00 – 17:00 (CET), December 12, 2021
During September 16-18, 2020, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) – Club de Madrid (CdM) Policy Lab “Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance – A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence” announced, discussed, and called for applying the Social Contract for the AI Age. One year later, September 7-9, 2021 BGF-CdM Policy Lab “Fundamental Rights in AI & Digital Societies – Towards An International Accord” announced and discussed the Framework for AI International Accord and BGF-CdM established the Global Alliance for Digital Governance, which are fundamental to the AI World Society (AIWS). Both ideas and works are introduced in the book Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, a core of the United Nations Centennial Initiative. The Social Contract for the AI Age and the book were also recommended and discussed at the Annual Policy Dialog October 27-29, 2021, organized by CdM in partnership with the BGF.
BGF organizes the annual symposium “Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” to discuss Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital.
by Editor | Nov 21, 2021 | News
“China’s influence in US politics has coincided with the industrialization of China, at the expense of a deindustrializing US. Global corporations, to which US politicians answer, fled high wages and environmental regulations in the US for low wages and lax environmental standards in China. Now, the US is paying the price and might not recover sufficiently to defend itself against China’s growing military. The strategic ambitions of one nation can and have upset the United Nations and the balance between powers. Now the Western world must understand the imminent threats from the hegemonic ambitions of China.”
Hierarchy exists in every segment of society. From politics, to unions, associations, corporations, and the military. Dr. Corr breaks them all down and provides readers with a sense of what the world could well face if we allow hierarchy to continue its historical development toward a global and illiberal hegemony. Be it in China, the United States, or the European Union, all are vying for global influence and the utilization of the United Nations structure to promote either the principles of human rights and democracy, or in the case of Beijing, the exact opposite. This clash between democracy and autocracy on a global level could turn to war.
Anders Corr is a member of the AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net). He contributed to Boston Global Forum (BGF) in writing reports and speaking at Global Cybersecurity Day December 12, 2015 and other BGF events.
Link: https://lu.ma/anders-corr
To discuss with Anders Corr about the book, please send your comments to [email protected]
by Editor | Nov 21, 2021 | News
Bill Browder presented Labor Senator Kimberly Kitching with the Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Award at the 2021 ceremony in London.
Boston Global Forum congratulates Senator Kitching on receiving this honor.
Kimberley spoke at the Democratic Alliance for Digital Governance on July 1, 2020, organized by Boston Global Forum and at the United Nations Centennial Roundtable, organized by AI World Society Network (AIWS.net). She called for legislations and regulations for transparency and accountability of governments in digital and AI.
She will speak about concepts for a powerful global mechanism to enforce Global Law on AI and Digital at the Symposium ““The Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” on Global Cybersecurity Day.
8:00 am – 11:00 am (EST), 14:00 – 17:00 (CET), December 12, 2021.
The death of Sergei Magnitsky sparked a fierce global backlash. In the US, the Obama administration introduced legislation, commonly called the Magnitsky Act, to sanction the officials complicit in Magnitsky’s death.
The legislation has since been adopted by 32 other countries and recently been used against Chinese officials over the persecution of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Momentum in Australia to adopt a similar bill stalled until Kitching took up the cause following a Zoom meeting with Browder.
“Australia’s a country that’s completely on the other side of the world and for years I’d been trying to get things going, and I couldn’t get any traction at all,” Browder told the awards ceremony.
“And the moment I met Kimberley on Zoom, everything started to happen.
“She got the government to agree to do a Magnitsky Act and I understand that it will pass in the next two weeks and Australia will be the 34th country in the world to have a Magnitsky Act.
”We almost have the whole world covered.“
Kitching paid tribute to her fellow “Wolverines” – Liberal China-hawks Senator James Paterson and Assistant Defence Minister Andrew Hastie – as well as Foreign Minister Marise Payne and the former Labor MP Michael Danby, who had pushed for an Australian Magnitsky Act before his retirement in 2016.
“We’ve never given up on having this law, it’s been delightful to find allies across the aisle and in the crossbench,” she said.
by Editor | Nov 21, 2021 | Event Updates
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The Speaker of Swedish Parliament Andreas Norlen will present the keynote speech at the Symposium “The Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” of the annual Global Cybersecurity Day.
8:00 am – 11:00 am (EST), 14:00 – 17:00 (CET), December 12, 2021
Following these significant and historical events, BGF organizes the annual symposium “Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital” to discuss Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital.
An urgent call to action for stakeholders to work toward an Accord that facilitates innovation while protecting rights in AI and Digital Societies, the world needs Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital with Facebook recently.
The Symposium will also discuss how the Global Alliance for Digital Governance coordinate resources to make Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital happen in 2026.
There are distinguished leaders and thinkers will talk and discuss at this special event.
After serving as member of Parliament for Östergötland County for the Moderate Party, Norlén was elected Speaker of the Riksdag on September 24, 2018. Since then, Norlén has served as the Chair of the Committee on the Constitution, the War Delegation, the Committee on Justice, and the Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs. He has played a pivotal role supporting constitutional matters relating to the media, the auditing of governmental processes, the Riksdag’s work on EU matters, issues concerning privacy, the central government budget process, and matters regarding the nomination of permanent judges in all Swedish courts.
Norlén worked across party lines to ensure unified support for the conclusions reached by the Committee on the Constitution, regarding its scrutiny of the performance of government ministers and the handling of government business. Norlén has asserted that the practices determined by the Committee on the Constitution should obtain broad support in the Riksdag and remain uncompromised when there is a change in the political majority of the Riksdag. He also worked for broad political consensus in matters such as those affecting the Constitution and preventive measures to counteract violent extremism.
Norlén defended his thesis at Linköping University in 2004 on the subject of Unreasonableness and Section 36 of the Contracts Act and is a Doctor of Laws. Norlén is also a businessperson active in the family publishing company Kurirengruppen i Sverige AB.
