The AI World Government was organized for the first time was organized in Washington DC in June 2019 with support of the Boston Global Forum, Michael Dukakis Institute and AI World Society. This year, the AI World Government was planned in June 2020 in Washington DC, but due to complications from COVID-19, it was decided that the 2020 AI World Government would be organized virtually from 28 to 30 October, 2020. AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net) is honored to be a strategic alliance partner and will present the Social Contract 2020 and other new initiatives of AIWS.net at the 2020 AI World Government.
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World peace and security are threatened by disputed territories and extreme nationalism, especially when great powers are contestants.
To maintain world peace and security, the Boston Global Forum organize the Online Dialog of “Disputing Territories and World Peace”
The Dialog will discuss and debate disputes between Japan-China, India-Chia, amongst others.
The Boston Global Forum have invited government leaders, legislators and thinkers from US, Japan, India, China, and other countries to dialog from August 8, 2020. The Dialog of “Disputing Territories and World Peace” started with the talk of Seiichi Eto, the Japanese Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, about the Senkaku Islands.
By using AI, AIWS.net will be able to evaluate and judge disputes more fairly.
On August 5, 2020, State Secretary Michael Pompeo announced the expansion of the clean network to safeguard America’s assets. The program highlights many points that were also from the Social Contract 2020
The Clean Network program is the Trump Administration’s comprehensive approach to guarding our citizens’ privacy and our companies’ most sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Today, I am announcing the launch of five new lines of effort to protect America’s critical telecommunications and technology infrastructure.
These programs are rooted in internationally accepted digital trust standards and built upon the 5G Clean Path initiative, announced on April 29, 2020, to secure data traveling on 5G networks into U.S. diplomatic facilities overseas and within the United States.
The five new lines of effort for the Clean Network are as follows:
Clean Carrier: To ensure untrusted People’s Republic of China (PRC) carriers are not connected with U.S. telecommunications networks. Such companies pose a danger to U.S. national security and should not provide international telecommunications services to and from the United States.
Clean Store: To remove untrusted applications from U.S. mobile app stores. PRC apps threaten our privacy, proliferate viruses, and spread propaganda and disinformation. American’s most sensitive personal and business information must be protected on their mobile phones from exploitation and theft for the CCP’s benefit.
Clean Apps: To prevent untrusted PRC smartphone manufacturers from pre-installing –or otherwise making available for download – trusted apps on their apps store. Huawei, an arm of the PRC surveillance state, is trading on the innovations and reputations of leading U.S. and foreign companies. These companies should remove their apps from Huawei’s app store to ensure they are not partnering with a human rights abuser.
Clean Cloud: To prevent U.S. citizens’ most sensitive personal information and our businesses’ most valuable intellectual property, including COVID-19 vaccine research, from being stored and processed on cloud-based systems accessible to our foreign adversaries through companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent.
Clean Cable: To ensure the undersea cables connecting our country to the global internet are not subverted for intelligence gathering by the PRC at hyper scale. We will also work with foreign partners to ensure that undersea cables around the world aren’t similarly subject to compromise.
The AIWS Social Contract has concepts to protect democracy in AI and digital technologies and business.
At the same time, the US should update its own privacy laws. This should not simply be a national security battle with China. The broader goal should be to strengthen fundamental rights and democratic institutions and support the Social Contract 2020.
As AI impacts more industries and areas of society, startups are building testing tools to help companies and governments assess the state of their models and identify potential compliance issues. Google Cloud chief AI scientist Andrew Moore recently predicted that the AI development pipeline will someday center on testing and validation. But Truera, previously known as AILens, says it’s building a different kind of platform, based on the work of co-founders Anupam Datta and Shayak Sen, whose explainability AI research considers causality and cooperative game theory, as well as fairness and bias.
Datta, who is on leave from his job as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told VentureBeat the research behind Truera began in 2014, when CMU researchers uncovered forms of gender bias in online advertising but lacked tools to understand how to measure that bias. The Truera platform can detect and help mitigate problems that occur in AI models, like bias imbalances, changes in data distribution that can impact predictions, and stability over time. Datta said customers are using this feature more as a result of anomalies brought on by COVID-19.
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).
This is a talk at the Dialog of “Disputing Territories and World Peace”
Seiichi Eto, the Japanese Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs, talks about the Senkaku Islands on the Boston Global Forum, August 8, 2020.
He criticizes: China does not have sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands, and China is unfair in claiming that they belong to China, creating tensions in the Senkaku Islands of Japan.
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More information about the Senkaku Islands can be found here.
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Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School, Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, is co-author of the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI.
He recently posted his writing in the Opinion Section of Boston Globe, July 27, 2020 with title “The GOP’s moral trap”.
He wrote:
“The Republican Party has shattered the longstanding norm that political power should be used with restraint rather than weaponized and taken to its lawful limits. It’s about to pay the price.
Democracies depend on norms — unwritten rules about how leaders and citizens should behave. One norm is forbearance — the idea that political power should be used with restraint rather than weaponized and taken to its lawful limits. Such norms have little standing in today’s Republican Party.”
Professor Caroline A. Jones, MIT, has joined the History of AI Board at AIWS.net. She is a Professor in History, Theory, and Criticism of the Architecture Department at MIT.
She wrote a chapter of the book “Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking At AI” (2019), whose co-authors are Judea Pearl, Alex Pentland, Max Tegmark, Stuart Russell, and others. She said “Humans must truly understand intelligence to re-create it”, and “As we enshrine computation as the core of smartness, we would be well advised to think of the complexity of our ‘wet’ cognition, which entails a much more distributed notion of intelligence that goes well beyond the sacred cranium and may not even be bounded by our own skin.”
In preparation for the Policy Lab, WLA-CdM and BGF will be organizing a series of preliminary online roundtables that seek to fuel and enrich deliberations within the Policy Lab. The first of these roundtables took place on 12 May, 2020, and focused on the deployment of digital technologies in response to COVID-19 pandemic, and their implications on privacy rights.
A second online roundtable on Digital Technologies, Elections and Democracy in times of the COVID-19 pandemic will be held on August 5, 2020 and analyse how digital technologies can contribute to protecting democracies and guaranteeing free, fair and transparent elections in times of global emergencies.
In the present COVID-19 context and from a democratic perspective, the development of a new Social Contract on Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence acquires renewed relevance as the imperative of improving preparedness and government responses to global crises becomes ever more evident.
These policy discussions are part of the Multilateralism and Global Cooperation track of WLA-CdM’s 2020-2022 Programmatic Strategy. They will serve tobring the digital transformation angle into WLA-CdM’s 2020 Policy Dialogue on ‘Multilateralism that delivers’ and, through the latter, to our contribution to the UN75 process and global discussions on the much needed reinvigoration of the multilateral system.
There were recommendations and suggestions from this conference to establish alliances to protect and strengthen democracy to face threats that undermine democracy and threats from China. In July, there were statements and speeches of leaders echoing these recommendations and sentiments.
Ichiro Fujisaki, former Ambassador of Japan to US, a distinguished professor and Chairman for International Strategies of Sophia University, spoke at the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance Conference in July 2020.
He criticized China’s autocracy and he raised the 3Cs to protect and strengthen democracy: Coherence in thinking, Consistent actions, Collaboration among democracy countries.
Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki is also a Mentor of AI World Society Innovation Network (AIWS.net).
