by Editor | Sep 19, 2020 | Event Updates
On September 16, 2020, at the Welcome and Introductory Session of World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid Policy Lab: Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance – A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence, after keynote speech of Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, Professor Thomas Patterson, Board Member of the Boston Global Forum, launched and presented Social Contract for the AI Age. Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief of the Academic Impact, United Nations, and Editor in Chief of the United Nations Chronicle Magazine, moderated the discussion. Discussants include Prime Minister of Latvia, Valdis Birkavs.
The list of speakers of the special sessions are below.
Welcome Session
- Danilo Türk, President of WLA-CdM, President of Slovenia (2007-2012)
- Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
- Mr. Nguyen Van Tuong, Chairman of Tram Huong Khanh Hoa
- Governor Michael Dukakis, Chair of The Boston Global Forum
- Keynote Speech “Transatlantic Relations and the Digital Social Contract”
- Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
Introductory Session: A New Social Contract in the Age of AI
Keynote: Thomas Patterson, Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Professor of Government and the Press of Harvard Kennedy School
Facilitator: Ramu Damodaran, Editor-in-Chief of the UN Chronicle and Chief of the United Nations Academic Impact
Panel discussion:
- Valdis Birkavs, WLA-CdM Member, Prime Minister of Latvia (1993-1994)
- Jerry Jones, WLA-CdM Advisor Executive Vice-President, Ethics and Legal Officer, Live Ramp and Advisor
- Nuria Oliver, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, member of the High Level Expert Group on B2G data sharing at the European Commission
Link: https://boston.dialoguescdm.org/on-demand/#02
by Editor | Sep 19, 2020 | News
Causality Link, an advanced, AI-driven investment technology provider, today announced an agreement with MT Newswires to incorporate the financial news information provider’s industry-leading content into the Causality Link Research Assistant platform.
MT Newswires’ global financial news strengthens Causality Link’s vast and growing corpus of content with a perspective relied upon by institutional investors globally. By leveraging MT Newswires’ “Live Briefs PRO – Global Markets” offering — a comprehensive, real-time, multi-asset feed of global capital markets and economic events –Causality Link gains more than 130 categories of original, ticker-tagged and meta-coded content that will augment the Research Assistant’s signals and financial models.
“The addition of high-quality, focused news stories impacting equity markets worldwide will be a significant complement to our Research Assistant,” said Eric Jensen, co-founder and CTO of Causality Link. “Our evaluation showed strong evidence supporting great coverage and a high signal-to-noise ratio. MT Newswires is a recognized leader in the business and financial news space and it’s great to be working with the firm to advance the unmatched knowledge our platform collects and aggregates.”
Causality Link’s unique, AI-powered Research Assistant extracts the knowledge contained within millions of documents and other text-based sources to provide investors and analysts with a unique perspective on companies, industries and macroeconomic drivers. By aggregating explicitly stated cause-and-effect relationships between market indicators and company key performance indicators (KPIs), the Causality Link platform provides clients with more significant, longer-lasting, less emotional and more precise insights and forecasts. With the help of its proprietary machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies, the solution is leading the next wave of AI innovation to aggregate human knowledge from thousands of authors.
In the field of AI and Causality, Professor Judea Pearl is a pioneer for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011, Professor Pearl won the Turing Award, computer science’s highest honor, for “fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus of probabilistic and causal reasoning.” In 2020, Professor Pearl is also awarded as World Leader in AI World Society (AIWS.net) by Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) and Boston Global Forum (BGF). At this moment, Professor Judea also contributes to Causal Inference for AI transparency, which is one of important AIWS.net topics on AI Ethics.
by Editor | Sep 12, 2020 | News
This is the first social contract in the digital, Internet and AI era, a platform for connection among governments, stakeholders, and private and public institutions, and for balancing centers of power, initiated by the Boston Global Forum, will pay particular attention to insights presented by government representatives, academic institutions, think tanks, tech companies and civil society.
The Social Contract for the AI Age was completed and launched on September 9, 2020.
The co-authors of the Social Contract for the AI Age are:
Governor Michael Dukakis, Boston Global Forum and
President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvia and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid
Vint Cerf, Father of Internet, Google, Nazli Choucri, MIT,
Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Tuan Anh Nguyen, Boston Global Forum, Thomas Patterson, Harvard University,
Alex Pentland, MIT, Marc Rotenberg, CAIDP, David Silbersweig, Harvard University
Please view and download Social Contract for the AI Age either here or here.
by Editor | Sep 12, 2020 | News
“The Social Contract for the AI Age”, the first social contract in the digital, Internet and AI era, a platform for connection among governments, stakeholders, and private and public institutions, and for balancing centers of power, initiated by the Boston Global Forum, will be officially launched and discussed at Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance:
A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 16-18 September 2020, organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (https://boston.dialoguescdm.org/agenda/)
Governor Michael Dukakis, President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, father of the Internet Vint Cerf and Nguyen Anh Tuan are four of co-authors invite organizations and individuals sign the Social Contract here.
by Editor | Sep 12, 2020 | Event Updates
On 16, 17 and 18 of September 2020, Democratic former Heads of State and Government, Members of Club de Madrid, current Government representatives, experts and renowned scholars will analyse global challenges and offer actionable policy solutions at a transatlantic and multi-stakeholder Policy Lab on the Social Contract for the AI Age, a new social contract on digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
This forthcoming Policy Lab will convene over 10 former democratic Heads of State and Government (all Members of Club de Madrid), Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, as well as world class experts like computer scientist and father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, MIT Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Governor Michael Dukakis, Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States (1988), professors of Harvard, MIT, and top universities. Together, participants will lend their experience-based critical judgement to pioneering discussions which seek, among other priorities, to identify ways of engaging different sectors of society in grounding policymaking while protecting the democratic mandate.
All in all, the rapid rollout of digital technologies and AI beyond the control of states poses a global challenge never seen before, which is why we should not set global, regional and national standards of digital governance without the participation of all societal actors. In this sense, debates from this Policy Lab on “The Social Contract for the AI Age”, the first social contract in the digital, Internet and AI era, a platform for connection among governments, stakeholders, and private and public institutions, and for balancing centers of power, initiated by the Boston Global Forum, will pay particular attention to insights presented by government representatives, academic institutions, think tanks, tech companies and civil society.
The dialogue will also serve as a platform to establish a Transatlantic Alliance for Digital Governance and the AIWS City, an all-digital virtual city based on the standards and norms of “the Social Contract for the AI Age”, “People Centered Economy”, “Trustworthy Economy” and “Intellectual Society”. Lastly, the policy discussion aims to discuss the creation of an initiative to monitor governments as well as companies in using AI and to generate an AI Ethics Index at all levels.
Further information can be found here.
by Editor | Sep 12, 2020 | News
Nobody knows what will happen in the future, but some guesses are a lot better than others. A kicked football will not reverse in midair and return to the kicker’s foot. A half-eaten cheeseburger will not become whole again. A broken arm will not heal overnight.
By drawing on a fundamental description of cause and effect found in Einstein’s theory of special relativity, researchers from Imperial College London have come up with a way to help AIs make better guesses too.
The world progresses step by step, every instant emerging from those that precede it. We can make good guesses about what happens next because we have strong intuitions about cause and effect, honed by observing how the world works from the moment we are born and processing those observations with brains hardwired by millions of years of evolution.
Computers, however, find causal reasoning hard. Machine-learning models excel at spotting correlations but are hard pressed to explain why one event should follow another. That’s a problem, because without a sense of cause and effect, predictions can be wildly off. Why shouldn’t a football reverse in flight?
This is a particular concern with AI-powered diagnosis. Diseases are often correlated with multiple symptoms. For example, people with type 2 diabetes are often overweight and have shortness of breath. But the shortness of breath is not caused by the diabetes, and treating a patient with insulin will not help with that symptom.
The AI community is realizing how important causal reasoning could be for machine learning and are scrambling to find ways to bolt it on.
“It’s very cool to see ideas from fundamental physics being borrowed to do this,” says Ciaran Lee, a researcher who works on causal inference at Spotify and University College London. “A grasp of causality is really important if you want to take actions or decisions in the real world,” he says. It goes to the heart of how things come to be the way they are: “If you ever want to ask the question ‘Why?’ then you need to understand cause and effect.”
The original article can be found here.
In the field of causal inference, Professor Judea Pearl is a pioneer for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011, Professor Pearl won the Turing Award, computer science’s highest honor, for “fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus of probabilistic and causal reasoning.” In 2020, Professor Pearl is also awarded as World Leader in AI World Society (AIWS.net) by Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) and Boston Global Forum (BGF). At this moment, Professor Judea also contributes to Causal Inference for AI transparency, which is one of important AIWS.net topics on AI Ethics.
by Editor | Sep 6, 2020 | News
The Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, version 2.0, will be officially completed on September 9, and will be launched at the Policy Lab “Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance – A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence”, co-organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum, on 16-18 September 2020.
In Session I: The AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network: A Platform for Transatlantic Cooperation, Presidents, Prime Ministers, distinguished thinkers, and innovators together with Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of the Boston Global Forum, and Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet, Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, will discuss the Social Contract 2020, AIWS.net, and AIWS City as a practice of the Social Contract 2020 and a platform for Transatlantic Cooperation.
Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zlatko Lagumdžija, joins as co-author of the Social Contract 2020, and a Mentor of AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS.net), and the AIWS City Board of Leaders, the History of AI Board.
An experienced political leader, professor in computer science, and economics, member of World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, and from a special country, PM Lagumdžija plays a significant role and has great contributions to the Social Contract 2020, AIWS.net, and AIWS City.
“We are thrilled that Zlatko Lagumdžija is joining us,” said Governor Michael Dukakis. “We are all very impressed by his breadth of knowledge, achievements and his passionate commitment to fundamental rights and democratic governance.”
Prime Minister Lagumdžija said:” I am very honored to join the Board of AIWS Innovation Network (AIWS.net), AIWS City, the History of AI, and co-author of the Social Contract 2020. We must ensure that new technologies — and AI in particular — promote a better world.”
Lagumdžija is a speaker at Policy Lab “Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance – A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence”
by Editor | Sep 6, 2020 | News
Club de Madrid, in partnership with the Boston Global Forum, and with the generous support of Tram Huong Khanh Hoa Company (ATC), presents a Policy Lab will be analysing challenges to digital and AI governance from a transatlantic perspective and offer actionable policy solutions as we consider the need to build a new social contract that will adequately tackle these challenges.
Leaders of the Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, such as Governor Michael Dukakis, Father of the Internet Vint Cerf, Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Marc Rotenberg, professors Thomas Patterson, Nazli Choucri, David Silbersweig, Alex Pentland, will attend and present the Social Contract 2020 at this special event on 16-18 September 2020.
By contrasting North American and European best practices and perspectives, Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum aim to delve into innovative ideas and formulate actionable policy recommendations and consider the need to build a new social contract that will adequately tackle the challenges raised by artificial intelligence and digital governance. Both organizations will look to identify ways of engaging technological companies in public policy making while protecting the democratic mandate, which guarantees policies that serve the general interest, rather than that of fewer actors.
https://boston.dialoguescdm.org/
http://www.clubmadrid.org/policy-lab-transatlantic-approaches-on-digital-governance-a-new-social-contract-on-artificial-intelligence/
by Editor | Sep 6, 2020 | Event Updates
Club de Madrid, in partnership with the Boston Global Forum, presents a Policy Lab to analyze current global challenges from a transatlantic perspective and offer ensuing policy solutions on digital technologies and artificial intelligence. This is a special 3-day event from September 16-18, 2020 with attendance of political leaders, distinguished thinkers, and innovators. The Boston Global Forum will launch and present “the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI” and the AIWS City at this event.
World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, author of “Deep Thinking” is a speaker at “Transatlantic Approaches on Digital Governance – A New Social Contract on Artificial Intelligence” Conference.
World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) is the largest worldwide assembly of political leaders working to strengthen democratic values, good governance and the well-being of citizens across the globe.
As a non-profit, non-partisan, international organization, its network is composed of more than 100 democratic former Presidents and Prime Ministers from over 70 countries, together with a global body of advisors and expert practitioners, who offer their voice and agency on a pro bono basis, to today’s political, civil society leaders and policymakers. WLA-CdM responds to a growing demand for trusted advice in addressing the challenges involved in achieving democracy that delivers, building bridges, bringing down silos and promoting dialogue for the design of better policies for all.
