Francesco Lapenta, Founding Director, Institute of Future and Innovation Studies. John Cabot University, Rome, published the book “Our Common AI Future”
He is a member of History of AI Board at AIWS.net and contributor to Framework for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital.
Francesco Lapenta will be one of speakers at the Global Cybersecurity Day event, during which BGF will announce the GADG Declaration of Action for Global Law and Accord on AI and Digital.
This concise geopolitical analysis and roadmap presents a historical overview, a concepts map, and a road map for AI driven Sustainable Development based on: shared Future Narratives; Socially Responsible Innovation, Science and Technology Diplomacy; the definition of Scientific Green Zones and Red Lines, Human Centric and Trustworthy AI Principles and Regulations, a shared Geopolitical Strategy and Model for Sustainability and AI, an Alternative Multilateral Model for Science and Technology Diplomacy, and Multilateral Scientific and Technological Alliances, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance Programmes. Complexity and Non Linear Dynamics Theories, Systemic Thinking, Data and AI Diplomacy, Open and Sustainable Data, FAIR Data Principles and 12 Tools, Data Stewardship, Data Trusts, AI Standards. Inspired by the UN “Our Common Future” report’s vision, values, and path, and the goals set by the “UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”.
The Vint Cerf House is a combination between online via AIWS City and physical place at NovaWorld Phan Thiet, a spectacular ocean city in southern Vietnam.
The Vint Cerf House is a place that introduce historical achievements of Father of Internet, Vint Cerf, and other contributions that he is continuing in the Internet, the People-Centered Economy, AIWS City, and “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”, the core of the United Nations Centennial Initiative. The House is a special venue for distinguished seminars, conferences, symposiums, and library. Vint Cerf will stay in here on visits Vietnam and by online to discuss and speak online.
The Vint Cerf House will be open to the public from September, 2022 as plan of NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
The Baku Global Forum under the motto “The World after COVID-19” was launched in capital under the auspices of President Ilham Aliyev and organized by the Nizami Ganjavi International Center, a partner of the Boston Global Forum.
As a non-governmental organization, the center brings together former heads of state and government, as well as influential international experts from global. It is the main organizer of the Global Baku Forum, held annually in Baku since 2013. Baku has hosted seven global forums and 42 summits since 2013.
The VIII Global Baku Forum, November 4-6, 2021, attracts great attention and interest of world leaders. At the opening ceremony, addresses were heard from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Latvian President Egils Levits, Moldovan Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, Pope Francis, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, former UK Prime Minister, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and World Health Organization, Ambassador for Global Health Gordon Brown and other dignitaries.
The EU was a visionary creation that managed to transform the relations between deadly antagonists into peaceful partners, e.g. France and Germany. It expanded the fruitful collaborations among its members, and increased its membership enhancing peace and prosperity across the continent.
However, it was not able to become a single federal state, an ambition that was largely abandoned when the citizens of France and the Netherlands (two of the original six founders of the EEC) rejected a 20 proposed European Constitution that had been drafted by a committee headed by former French president Valery Giscard-d’Estaing. But despite successes in various areas, (e.g. common market, human rights, the euro, the unification of Germany) and the eastward advances after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it still had difficulties in defining a common foreign policy and a common defense posture (independent of NATO). Yet the EU was seen everywhere as a force for peace, prosperity, democracy and human rights. But lately, it has been having problems with the rise of what has been termed by some as “illiberal democracies”, democracies in name only where repetitive elections simply serve to ratify the ruling regime.
Among the questions that could be addressed by this panel:
Can the EU design a unified foreign and defense posture vis-a-vis the rapidly changing world order?
Can the European parliament become a viable forum for formulating policies that would be binding
on all the member countries?
Can the EU design policies that would resolve favorably the current crises that exist in Europe: e.g.
South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Ukraine and Crimea? Or to define policies on such non-consensual issues
as immigration?
Can the EU manage the issues raised by the policies of some of its member states, e.g. Hungary
under Viktor Urban?
Can the EU resolve the remaining issues of the BREXIT decisions?
How will the EU define it relations with Russia post- Crimea?
Moderator:
– Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia 1999-2007; Co-Chair, NGIC (TBC)
Speakers:
– Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, President of Croatia 2015-2020
– Yves Leterme, Prime Minister of Belgium 2008, 2009-2011
– Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister of Italy 2014-2016 (Digital Speaker)
– Emil Constantinescu, President of Romania 1996-2000
– Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder and CEO, Boston Global Forum
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.
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.
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)
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.
