by Editor | Feb 7, 2021 | Event Updates
World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) joins the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and Michael Dukakis Institute (MDI) in building AI World Society, a new society in the AI and Digital Age. This is collaboration will be running for 5 years.
In 2021, BGF and WLA-CdM will co-organize a Policy Lab about AI International Accord, the fifth layer of AI World Society.
In 2022, BGF and WLA-CdM will co-organize the policy dialog about a new economy, a new Bretton Woods, and a new financial system in AI World Society.
AI World Society City will be an ecosystem to practice and apply the new economy and financial system.
by Editor | Jan 31, 2021 | News
On January 28, 2021, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum presented AI International Accord Initiative at the panel “Toward an International Accord on AI”, together with
Marit Hansen, State Data Protection Commissioner of Land Schleswig-Holstein (Germany); Eva Kalli, MEP (EU), Malavika Jayaram, Digital Asia Hub (Hong Kong).
Here is Tuan presentation:
- Scope:
- To create a framework for the AI International Accord
- To establish a Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance in order to support the AI International Accord and Social Contract for the AI Age
- To frame a Monitoring System that observes governments and big tech companies in uses and abuses of AI and notable violations of AI International Accord and of Social Contract for the AI Age.
- To practice the Framework at AIWS City
- Key concepts and content of AI International Accord (AIIA):
Among the key topics for discussion will be:
– The current legal frameworks for AI and the essential elements of a global AI legal framework.
– Responsibilities of governments and companies in protecting data and privacy
– Preventing abuses by governments and businesses in AI, Data, Digital Technology, Cyberspace, including attacking companies, organizations, and individuals on the Internet.
– Creating norms to manage robotics and cyber-security
– Protecting Social Contract for the AI Age, democratic values, transparency, and accountability while ensuring equal opportunities across the socio-economic landscape.
– Collaboration and responsibility between governments and businesses in preventing international cybercrimes and criminals.
– Punishing governments and businesses which violate AI International Accord and/or Social Contract for the AI Age.
- Process:
- AIIA Team create a Framework
- Discussion:
+ AIIA Panels organized by Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute
+ Quad Roundtables organized by Boston Global Forum and Riga Conference 2021
- Connect with governments and international organizations
- Set up alliances to implement and practice
- Practice at AIWS City
- Endorse:
- First step: Quad group and EU
- Second step: OECD countries
- Third step: United Nations
- Fourth step: Russia and China
- Host and Partners:
Host: Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute
Partners:
World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid
Riga Conference 2021
United Nations Academic Impact
Potential Partners:
European Commission
US, Japan, Australia, India, Sweden, Latvia Governments
Timeline of key events:
Quad Roundtable April, 2021
AIIA
Riga Conference 2021
Session about AIIA
World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid, September 2021
World Leaders and AIIA
AIWS City as the place to apply and respect AIIA
Boston Global Forum December 12, 2021
Announce the AIIA Accord and present World Leader for Peace and Security 2021 who made significant contributions to AIIA
- Leaders: Governor Michael Dukakis, President Ursula von der Leyen
- Team:
– Nazli Choucri
– Tuan Nguyen
– Thomas Patterson
– David Silbersweig
– Merve Hickok
– Alex Sandy Pentland
– Vint Cerf
– Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija
– President Vaira Vike-Freiberga,
– Prime Minister Esko Aho,
– Yasuhide Nakayama
– Douglas Frantz
– P.S Raghavan
– Kimberley Kitching
– Zaneta Ozolina
– Stavros Lambrinidis
– Judea Pearl
– Randall Davis
Assistants: Sandis Sraders, Larissa Zutter, Minh Nguyen
Official Online Host of events and discussions:
AIWS Palace at AIWS City
by Editor | Jan 31, 2021 | Event Updates
On January 28, 2021, the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) at Michael Dukakis Institute organized the TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL ACCORD ON AI Panel at the 14th Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference at Brussels.
Speakers: Nguyen Anh Tuan, Michael Dukakis Institute (US); Malavika Jayaram, Digital Asia Hub (HK); Marit Hansen, State Data Protection Commissioner of Land Schleswig-Holstein (DE); Eva Kalli, MEP (EU)
There is growing support for an international legal framework for AI. In 2019, the OECD countries announced the AI Principles, which were then adopted by the G-20 nations. In 2020, the European Commission proposed a Transatlantic Agreement on AI. And in 2021, the Council of Europe is likely to propose an International treaty for AI, similar to the COE Privacy Convention, on January 25, 2021, Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute announced AI International Accord Intiative.
All of this AI policy activity points toward the establishment of an International Accord on AI. This panel will explore
the current state of affairs and the next steps.
- What are the current legal frameworks for AI?
- What are the essential elements of a global AI legal framework?
- What are the plans to establish an International accord on AI?
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of MDI presented AI International Accord Initiative at the panel.
by Editor | Jan 24, 2021 | News
Introducing the Goddess of AIWS Innovation: in the style of Athena, an Eagle brings olive as Innovation Goddess of AIWS City.
AIWS Innovation Goddess is one of wisdom, intellectual, visionary, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, victory, mathematics, artificial intelligence, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, peace, security, and prosperity.
by Editor | Jan 24, 2021 | News
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, recipient of the World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2020, gave a speech at the European Parliament Plenary on the inauguration of the new US President Joe Biden January 20, 2021. She said:
“In all beginning there dwells a magic force. Jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne. I cannot help but think of this famous line of the poet Hermann Hesse when looking forward to the inauguration of Joe Biden in a few hours from now. Joe Biden’s oath will be a message of healing for a deeply divided nation. And it will be a message of hope for a world that is waiting for the U.S. to be back in the circle of like-minded states. This time-honoured ceremony on the steps of the U.S. Capitol will be a demonstration of the resilience of American democracy. And a resounding proof that, once again, after four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House. And he will be standing next to Kamala Harris, the first woman to be Vice-President of the United States.
This is a historic achievement and this also makes this day very special. This new dawn in America is the moment we have been waiting for, so long. Europe is ready for a new start with our oldest and most trusted partner. And this is why the Commission recently has adopted a new, forward looking transatlantic agenda. And it focuses on where we can together join forces to push for global change – based on our common values, interests and global influence.
From climate change to health, from digitalisation to democracy – these are global challenges that need renewed and improved global cooperation. And the European Union and the United States must lead from the front and bring an alliance of like-minded partners with us. There is of course no greater need for global cooperation in the short term than in tackling the pandemic, which has been so devastating on both sides of the Atlantic. As you know, the European Union has been leading the global response since day one.
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It is in this digital field that Europe has so much to offer the new government in Washington. The path we have taken in Europe can be an example for approaches at international level. As has long been the case with the General Data Protection Regulation. I can imagine, for example, a joint Trade and Technology Council, as a first step. Together we could create a digital economy rulebook that is valid worldwide: From data protection and privacy to the security of critical infrastructure. A body of rules based on our values: human rights and pluralism, inclusion and protection of privacy.
This day brings good news: The United States are back. And Europe stands ready. To reconnect with an old and trusted partner, to breathe new life in our cherished alliance.”
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH_21_167
by Editor | Jan 24, 2021 | Event Updates
BOSTON, January 25, 2021: The Boston Global Forum (BGF) and the Michael Dukakis Institute today announced an initiative to establish a worldwide agreement to promote the transformative benefits of artificial intelligence and safeguard against potential abuses. The inclusive global conversation is designed to ensure the responsible use of AI technologies by governments and business while protecting democratic values.
“Artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of our lives,” said Governor Michael Dukakis in announcing the initiative. “Our goal is to stimulate a global conversation that will make sure AI is used responsibly by governments and the private sector around the world.”
Determining how to govern AI has attracted thoughtful proposals and standards from a wide range of organizations, from the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to the European Union and the African Union. The new initiative plans to build on the earlier work and expand collaboration on an international scale.
The Artificial Intelligence International Accord Initiative begins with three primary goals:
- Build a consensus around the framework for an international accord on AI standards.
- Establish a Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance to support the accord and its companion document, the Social Contract for the AI Age.
- Create a monitoring system to observe the uses and abuses of AI by governments and businesses and record violations of the accord and the Social Contract.
by Editor | Jan 17, 2021 | News
Professor Judea Pearl, World Leader in AI World Society (AIWS) Award 2020, Board Member of the History of AI, conceived Deep Understanding and Data Interpretation. Michael Dukakis Institute supports this concept and model, as it will create more transparency, smarter, and easier to monitor in AI. It also will help reduce data and resources, thus saving energy and environment. Governments and business should invest more for education, research, and development of the Judea Pearl model and to create decision-making systems for governments and society.
Professor Judea Pearl wrote:
“The bulk of machine learning in AI (as well as DATA Science in general) is operating in ‘data fitting’ mode, as opposed to ‘data interpretation’ mode, which characterizes scientific thinking. ‘The data-fitting school is driven by the faith that the secret to rational decisions lies in the data themselves, if only we are sufficiently clever at data mining. In contrast, the data-interpreting school views data, not as a sole object of inquiry but as an auxiliary means for interpreting reality, and ‘reality’ stands for the processes that generate the data.’
Mathematical analysis reveals inherent limitations of the data-centric paradigm, and its inability to read Deep Understanding of the domain of discourse. This limitation entails inherent limitation in achieving human level intelligence, specifically in meeting requirements of adaptation, explainability, robustness, and ethics.”
by Editor | Jan 17, 2021 | AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
In collaboration with Novaland to build the History of AI House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet, in late January 2021, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Director of Michael Dukakis Institute, will visit NovaWorld Phan Thiet and meet with leaders of Novaland to start to build the History of AI House. The History of AI House at NovaWorld Phan Thiet will present historical achievements, events, figures in AI, and a locale to announce the History of AI on December 31 annually.
The History of AI House at AIWS City, a virtual smart city, will connect and along with History of AI House in NovaWorld Phan Thiet, and support each other.
The first figures and achievements will be presented at the History of AI House are professor Judea Pearl, World Leader in AI World Society Award 2020, a mentor of AIWS.net, and professor Mavin Minsky, MIT.
by Editor | Jan 17, 2021 | AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
Professor Randall Davis has served as Associate Director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1993-1998), as a Research Director of CSAIL from 2003-2007, and as Associate Director of CSAIL from 2012-2014.
Dr. Davis has been a seminal contributor to the fields of knowledge-based systems and human-computer interaction, publishing some more than 100 articles and playing a central role in the development of several systems. He and his research group are developing advanced tools that permit natural multi-modal interaction with computers by creating software that understands users as they sketch, gesture, and talk.
He is the co-author of Knowledge-Based Systems in AI. In 1990 he was named a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI and in 1995 was elected to a two-year term as its President. From 1995-1998 he served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the U. S. Air Force, earning the USAF Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service.
Dr. Davis has also been active in the area of intellectual property and software. In 1990 he served as expert to the Court in Computer Associates v. Altai, a case that produced the abstraction, filtration, comparison test now widely used in software copyright cases.
From 1998 to 2000 he served as the chairman of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences study on intellectual property rights and the information infrastructure entitled The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age, published by the National Academy Press in February, 2000.
We warmly welcome Professor Randall Davis to the History of AI Board.
