The first regional leadership seminar in the framework of its flagship “Young Mediterranean Voices” programme
On January 14th-19th, 2019, the first regional leadership seminar in the framework of its flagship “Young Mediterranean Voices” programme will be launched with the participation of top countries’ leaders of this programme. The aim is to create an exciting method for attendees to take part in the discussion on common social challenges encountered in the Mediterranean.
The seminar will give participants a chance to act as leaders or ambassadors. Then, they will present their approaches to advocacy and communication. In addition, the program’s trainees will be given direct exposure to world leaders and policy makers who are Club de Madrid’s members.
Japanese Prime Minister called for enhancing Japan’s security capabilities in cyberspace and outer space
Prior to the government meeting, the threat of nuclear and missile programs from North Korea was addressed in the Defense Ministry’s annual paper. In the context of the information era, technologies are emerging day by day. “It is impossible to protect our country from every threat if our thinking is limited to conventional categories of land, sea and air”, said PM. Abe.
- Abe’s intention is to adjust the National Defense Program Guidelines which was last approved in 2013 with a higher defense capability. In addition, he asked Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera to review the guidelines on North Korea’s nuclear weapon development and China’s military force.
Apparently, problems in cybersecurity remains one of his major interests. In 2015, the Prime Minister was named the World Leader in Cybersecurity by BGF- MDI.
Tesla Founder sounds the alarm about AI being out of control
As AI is growing in an unprecedented speed and becoming more and more influential to human life, many experts and leaders have expressed their points of views on the development of AI. Elon Musk is one of those who fear for the future of our legacy.
It could take a long period to regulate AI, even while AI is rapidly developing and is already starting to change the world. It might be too late by the time AI is regulated. Musk’s point of view towards AI is not all negative. In the interview, he also mentioned a company he co-founded to create human-AI interface with the hope to effectively merge with AI and make AI serve humans well.
“I tried to convince people to slow down […] to regulate the AI. This was futile. I tried for years. Nobody listened”, said Musk to Alphr. He worries of a future when AI can become more dangerous.
In time like this, AI development needs adjustment so it won’t get out of hand; rules and principles need to be followed. This is the focus of BGF- MDI’s development of the AIWS initiative to come up with a set of moral values and norms for AI so it can become more transparent.
Summit – the world’s most powerful supercomputer will be the “Pedal” for the major leaps in everything
The new machine crafted by the U.S has the capability to perform 200 million billion calculations a second which is eight time faster than a machine called Titan, the last computer to hold U.S supercomputing speed record before the arrival of Summit.
As supercomputers are being used for everything from designing aircraft to generating materials and other research, Summit will be the first supercomputer to be running AI applications such as machine learning and neural networks. Among the programs running on the new supercomputer, there is one involved with processing a great amount of data on written records and medical images to identify the linkage between genes and cancer as well as between genes and opioid addiction, and other afflictions. In term of climate, Summit can be a helpful instrument to reproduce the weather – modeling the behavior of clouds.
It is said that it is a stepping stone for the next achievement in computing – exaflop computing (performing a billion billion calculations a second), an international competition between U.S and China to this milestone. But it is not just a national pride that’s at stake here, it should be kept in mind that it is how the machine is used and what it can contribute to the good of mankind. With the fact that the supercomputer is running on the platform of AI, with the application of machine and neuroscience, unwanted consequences can occur if we do not take the AI moral seriously. According to the first layer of AIWS 7-layer Model, the first principle for developers to follow is that all AI is created for a better world and ensures the peace, security and prosperity of human.