Students of the AIWS Leadership Master Program practice at Global Alliance for Digital Governance

Students of the AIWS Leadership Master Program practice at Global Alliance for Digital Governance

AIWS Leadership Master Program belong to AIWS University (AIWS City), will practice their leadership by practicing at Global Alliance for Digital Governance. They will be assigned 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.

They continue with support, leading of presidents, prime ministers, leading thinkers, innovators:

  • Connect and organize discussions between leaders of companies
  • Organize discussions between leaders of governments
  • Connect and organize discussions with professors of Law Schools
  • Monitor governments in standards of Social Contract for the AI Age
  • Connect companies and organizations to invite them join the Exchange AIWS Values
  • Using Blockchain to create crypto-currency of AIWS Values.

Marcel R. Zutter

Marcel R. Zutter

MARCEL R. ZUTTER, born in 1961 in Basel/ Switzerland, has more than 30 years of international experience in financial services and technology. He is the Founder and Chairman of Parsumo Capital in Zurich, a quant asset management company leveraging investor behavior research. He is also an Angel Investor in the ICT and Fintech area and supports young entrepreneurs in Europe.

Mr. Zutter has worked in the institutional services business in Europe, Asia and the U.S in executive as well as board capacity. He also advised for many years some of the most sophisticated institutional investors across the globe on strategic, technology, asset and risk management topics. Already early in his career he developed a keen interest in understanding how technology can help change business models profoundly. It started at university with the development of a new approach to market research for innovative products and has never stopped to fascinate him.

Prior to founding Parsumo Capital in 2010 he was executive vice president/chief operating officer of State Street Global Markets in Boston and a Member of Executive Management. He had responsibility for strategy development, Fintech business, technology and operations. He led many of State Street’s initiatives to become a global market leader in new, alternative business platforms, thereby using technology, algorithms and processes in smart ways. He was also a key part of State Street Associates, an investment research think tank collaborating with academics from Harvard and MIT which combined unique information with big data processing/analysis

His previous role included responsibility for State Street’s Executive Operations and Strategy Group. During that time he lead key projects that helped to further advance State Street’s global expansion and positioning. Prior to this he was a managing director based in Zurich, Switzerland, responsible for the business build-up in Southern and Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining State Street in 1997, Mr. Zutter was a managing director at Credit Suisse Group. He held various management positions in asset management and securities brokerage over his 10 years there. He also worked as a research analyst for Baring Securities in Hong Kong and Singapore. Prior to his career in the financial services industry he was a consultant for Prognos AG in Basle, specializing in market analysis and strategy development for innovative products/new technologies, supporting major multinational organizations.

Upon his return to Switzerland in 2010 he founded Parsumo Capital and Axopa Partners, a global initiative to create a conflict-free trading platform for buy-side institutions only.

Marcel R. Zutter holds a Master’s Degree in Business and Economics from Basle University, Switzerland. He is a graduate of the International Bankers School in New York and the Swiss Banking School in Zurich and also completed the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School in Boston

He is married and the proud father of three children. He enjoys various sports, music and is curiously learning every day.

 

Lyndon Haviland

Lyndon Haviland

With more than 25 years experience in domestic and international public health, Dr. Haviland has worked with a wide range of organizations including UNAIDS, the UN Department of Public Information, the UN Foundation, UN Women, the UN Development Program, the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Medical Corps, the CUNY School of Public Health, the American Public Health Association (APHA), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS), the American Legacy Foundation, Earth Echo International, GAVI, Darkness to Light, Policy Wisdom, Forest Trends, and the Aspen Institute.

Highly respected as a leader, moderator, speaker, and fundraiser, Lyndon has advised heads of state and agency leaders on maternal and child health, access to vaccines, sexual and reproductive health, tobacco control, and health promotion/disease prevention. She is a passionate advocate for human rights and is dedicated to bringing individuals and organizations together to achieve lasting social change.

Žaneta Ozoliņa

Žaneta Ozoliņa

Chairwoman of the Board of Latvian Transatlantic Organization (LATO).

Žaneta Ozoliņa is a Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, University of Latvia. Her research interests focus on European integration, Transatlantic security, strategic communication, regional cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region.

Žaneta Ozoliņa is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and editor of several books, including such as “Rethinking Security” (2010), “Gender and Human Security: a View from the Baltic Sea Region” (2015), “Societal Security: Inclusion-Exclusion Dilemma. A portrait of Russian-speaking community in Latvia” (2016), “Re-defining Euro-Atlantic Values: Russia’s Manipulative Techniques” (2017), “Stratcom Laughs. In search of an Analytical Framework” (2017). She is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, such as Journal of Baltic Studies, Defence Strategic Communications, Lithuanian Annual Strategic Review, and is Editor in chief of the journal Latvijas intereses Eiropas Savienībā (Latvian Interests in the European Union).

She lectures at the Baltic Defence College, the Lithuanian Military Academy, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and many others. She was a chairwoman of the Strategic Analysis Commission under the Auspices of the President of Latvia (2004-2008) and a member of the European Research Area Board (European Commission, 2008-2012).

She was engaged in different international projects commissioned by the European Parliament, the European Commission, NATO, the Council of the Baltic Sea States and other international bodies. She chairs the Foreign Affairs Council of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Latvian Transatlantic Organization Association, is a member of the ECFR (European Council of Foreign Affairs).

Artificial Intelligence International Accord

Artificial Intelligence International Accord

World Leader in AIWS Award and AI International Accord Roundtable

      8:30 am – 10:30 am, EST, April 28, 2021

Ceremony to honor Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis as 2021 World Leader in AIWS

Remarks of Governor Michael Dukakis to honor Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis

Acceptance and Keynote Speech of Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis

Congratulations of Greek Consul General in Boston, Stratos Efthymiou

2021 World Leader in AIWS award: Ambassador of the European Union to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis

World Leader in AIWS Award winners:

Secretary General of OECD Angel Gurria, 2018
Father of Internet Vint Cerf, 2019,

Father of Causal Inference Methodology, Chancellor Professor Judea Pearl, UCLA, 2020

Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis, 2021

The United Nations Centennial Roundtable “AI International Accord”

The framework for AI International Accord (AIIA)

Chair/Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chairman of Boston Global Forum

Speakers/Panelists:

Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis, EU

Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT

Director for Partnerships and Outreach, UNESCO, Magnus Magnusson

Ambassador P.S Raghavan, India

EU Commission Principal Advisor, Paul Nemitz

Discussants:

Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT

Professor David Silbersweig, Harvard

Mr. Robert Whitfield, Chair, One World Trust

Mr. Allan M. Cytryn, Principal of Risk Masters International

Mr. Marc Rotenberg, Former President of EPIC

Ms. Merve Hickok, Founder of AI Ethicist

Dr. Lorraine Kisselburgh, Chair, ACM Technology Policy Council

Ms. Megan Wan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Professor Kirill Krinkin, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia

Roundtable of Artificial Intelligence International Accord

 April 28, 2021

The framework for AI International Accord (AIIA) is a follow-up of the Social Contract for the AI Age. The framework is designed to build the AI World Society (AIWS) and to meet the goals of the United Nations Centennial Initiative — as articulated by the United Nations Academic Impact and the Boston Global Forum.

The AIIA framework serves as a guide to international relations in the AI and Digital Age. It is based on AIWS values, and smarter, quicker, and more effective action.

The AI International Accord Roundtable will address:

  1. Fundamentals of the framework for AI International Accord,
  2. Processs to build AIIA,
  3. Mechanisms to implement AIIA, and.
  4. Supports  of governments, international organizations, and companies and firms to acknowledge, buttress,  and  enable this international accord.

Agenda

Governor Michael Dukakis

Introduction & Moderator

Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis

“View of EU leaders on international accord for AI, and the special EU-US AI Agreement”

(Acceptance and Keynote Speech at the Ceremony to honor Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis as 2021 World Leader in AIWS)

Professor Nazli Choucri,

“Introduction to the Framework for AI International Accord”

Mr. Magnus Magnusson

Bring Goodness and AI Ethics to AI International Accord, and view from UNESCO”

Ambassador P.S Raghavan

“How to mobilize the consensus support of democratic governments of AI International Accord

Paul Nemitz

Mechanism to implement and enforce AI International Accord”

Discussion, led by Governor Dukakis

Concluding remarks, statement of appreciation, and next steps

Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO, the Boston Global Forum

Delegation of the European Union to the United States

https://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/united-states-america/27290/about_en

The EU is represented in the United States by the Washington, DC Delegation of the European Union, which works in close coordination with the embassies and consulates of the EU member states.

Ambassador of the European Union to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis

Stavros Lambrinidis is the Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, as of March 1, 2019.

From 2012 to February 2019, he served as the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights.

In 2011, he was Foreign Affairs Minister of Greece.

Between 2004 and 2011, he was twice elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) with the Greek Social Democratic Party (PASOK). He served as Vice-President of the European Parliament (2009-11), Vice-President of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee (2004-09), and Head of the PASOK Delegation (2005-11).

Between 2000 and 2004, he was Director-General of the International Olympic Truce Centre, an International Olympic Committee organization.

He served as Ambassador ad personam of the Hellenic Republic (1999-2004); Secretary-General of the Greek Foreign Ministry, responsible for Expatriate Greeks (1996-99); and Chief of Staff to the Greek Foreign Minister (1996).

Between 1988 and 1993 he worked as an Attorney at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., specializing in international trade, transactions, and arbitration.

Mr. Lambrinidis was born in Athens, Greece in 1962. He studied Economics and Political Science at Amherst College (Bachelor of Arts degree, 1984) and Law at Yale Law School (Juris Doctor degree, 1988), where he was also Managing Editor of The Yale Journal of International Law. He is a 1980 graduate of the Athens College High School in Greece. He is married and has a daughter.

Chair:

Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-Founder and Chairman of The Boston Global Forum

Chairman of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation

Co-Founder and Chairman of The Boston Global Forum

Co-founder of AIWS.net and the AIWS City

Co-Author of Social Contract for the AI Age

The three-term Governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic nominee for President of the United States, Distinguished Professor of Northeastern University and UCLA 

Michael Stanley Dukakis culminates a half-century career dedicated to public service, political leadership, fostering the careers of young leaders, and scholarly achievement.

Together with Nguyen Anh Tuan, this former Massachusetts governor, has established The Boston Global Forum as a globally recognized think tank noted for developing peaceful solutions to some of the world’s most contentious issues.

Speakers / Panelists:

Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, AIWS City’s Board of Leaders

Nazli Choucri is a Boston Global Forum board member and Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her work is in the area of international relations, most notably on sources and consequences of international conflict and violence. Professor Choucri is the architect and Director of the Global System for Sustainable Development (GSSD), a multi-lingual web-based knowledge networking system focusing on the multi-dimensionality of sustainability. As Principal Investigator of an MIT-Harvard multi-year project on Explorations in Cyber International Relations, she directed a multi-disciplinary and multi-method research initiative. She is Editor of the MIT Press Series on Global Environmental Accord and, formerly, General Editor of the International Political Science Review. She also previously served as the Associate Director of MIT’s Technology and Development Program.

The author of eleven books and over 120 articles, Dr. Choucri is a member of the European Academy of Sciences. She has been involved in research or advisory work for national and international agencies, and for a number of countries, notably Algeria, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, Pakistan, Qatar, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. She served two terms as President of the Scientific Advisory Committee of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformation (MOST) Program.

Stratos Efthymiou, Consul General of Greece in Boston

Stratos Efthymiou is a career diplomat working for the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From early 2016 to September 2017 Stratos Efthymiou was the Spokesperson of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Director of its Information & Public Diplomacy Department. As Spokesperson he was part of the Greek negotiating team in the UN Conferences on the Cyprus issue in Geneva and in Crans Montana. He was also responsible for the public diplomacy and the social media of the Greek Foreign Ministry and for the communication aspects of international events such as the Ancient Civilization’s Forum and the two Rhodes Conferences for Security and Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Consul General Efthymiou also served for 3 years as Deputy Director of the Information and Public Diplomacy Department dealing with the Ministry’s website and social media and was actively engaged in the communication policy of the 2014 Greek Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers.

Since joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004, Mr Efthymiou has served at the Embassy of Greece in Moscow (2011–2013) and at the Embassy of Greece in Ankara (2009 – 2011), where he was previously appointed Head of the Embassy’s Consular Office (2007-2009).

He holds a Masters degree (DEA) in International Relations and a Diploma in Political Sciences from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences-Po). He also holds a BA degree in International Relations and European Studies from Athens’ Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He is a graduate of the Greek-French School of Athens.

Prior to joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and during his studies in Paris (1998-2001), Mr. Efthymiou worked as a freelance journalist, publishing articles in the Greek daily Kathimerini.

He speaks English, French, Spanish, Russian and German, and has obtained the highest Turkish-language qualification degree from the University of Ankara.

He is married with a daughter and a son.

As of September 2017, he is the Consul General of Greece in Boston. 

Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis

See at World Leader in AIWS Award above

Magnus Magnusson, Director for Partnerships and Outreach, UNESCO

Magnus Magnusson joined UNESCO 1 September 2017 as Director for Partnerships and Outreach in the Human and Social Science Sector.

Prior to joining UNESCO, Magnus held positions as Vice President for Emerging Markets and Sustainability at Eco Capacity Exchange, Head of Government Relations, Northern Europe at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Head of Business Development and External Relations at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and Regional Manager at the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) with responsibility for a USD 150 million infrastructure portfolio in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana and Ethiopia.

He started his career at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs with desk responsibility for the World Bank, regional development banks, IFAD and micro finance. Thereafter he joined the Nordic Council of Ministers as Senior Advisor for the finance, transport and development cooperation sectors.
He also acted as secretary to the Board of Governors of the Nordic Investment Bank, Nordic Development Fund and representative in the Board of the Nordic Project Fund. Hereafter Magnus joined the United Nations Environment Programme/GRID Arendal as Head of the Stockholm Office.

A Swedish citizen, Mr. Magnusson has an academic background in social sciences, business administration and economics and environmental studies from Uppsala University, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm School of Economics and University of California, Berkeley. He wrote his thesis on microfinance in rural Laos.

He is a board member of the Stockholm Philanthropy Symposium Foundation and advisory board member of Hand in Hand USA. Global Vaccines Project and ECO Capacity Exchange. He is a frequent panelist and speaker including in the areas of innovative finance and impact investing.

Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor of European Commission

Paul F. Nemitz is Principal Advisor in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. Before, he was the Director responsible for Fundamental rights and Union citizenship, the lead Director for the reform of the EU data protection legislation, the “Snowden” follow up, the negotiations of the EU – US Privacy Shield and the EU Code of Conduct against Hate speech on the internet.

Before joining DG Justice, he held posts in the Legal Service of the Commission, the Cabinet of Commissioner Nielson, and in the Directorates General for Trade, Transport and Maritime Affairs. He has a broad experience as agent of the Commission in litigation before the European Courts and he has published extensively on EU law.

Selected publications and interventions:

Human Principle – Power, Freedom and Democracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, with co-author Matthias Pfeffer, 2020; the more than 1000 endnotes of the book are freely available on the dedicated website for the book  PrinzipMensch.eu

Strengthening Democracy in Europe and its Resilience against Autocracy: Daring more democracy and a European Democracy Charter, with Frithjof Ehm, Research Papers in Law 1/2019, College of Europe; to be published in S. Garben, I. Govaere and P. Nemitz (Eds.), Critical Reflections on Constitutional Democracy in the European Union and its Member States (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2019), https: //www.coleurope. eu / study / european-legal-studies / research-activities / research-papers-law

Ambassador P.S. Raghavan, Former Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, India

Ambassador Raghavan is Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, which advises India’s National Security Council on strategic and security issues.

As a career diplomat, he has served as India’s Ambassador to Russia, Czech Republic and Ireland. He had other diplomatic assignments in USSR, Poland, UK, Vietnam and South Africa.

He was an advisor to the Prime Minister of India (2000-2004) on foreign affairs, defense, national security, nuclear energy and space.

He founded, and was the first head of, the Development Partnership Administration, which coordinates India’s economic partnership programmes abroad, with an annual budget of over US$ 1.5 billion.

He was Chief Coordinator of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi (2012). From 2012 to January 2014, he was Special Envoy of Government of India to Sudan and South Sudan.

The United Nations Centennial Initiative:

The United Nations Centennial was launched in 2019 by the United Nations Academic Impact in partnership with The Boston Global Forum.

The UN Centennial programs host roundtable discussions, conferences, new concepts, solutions, think pieces, and reflections as we look ahead to the global landscape in 2045—the United Nations Centennial year.

This initiative will examine issues impacting technology, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, diplomacy, warfare, and other pressing concerns. Our goal is to look to the future and the role the United Nations will continue to play in making our world more peaceful, democratic, prosperous and universally secure.

The Boston Global Forum contributes AI World Society initiative to the United Nations Centennial.

The mission of UN Centennial Initiative and AI World Society: Remaking the world – The Age of Global Enlightenment.

Artificial Intelligence International Accord (AIIA)

Artificial Intelligence International Accord (AIIA)


Format: Public with audiences

The moderator Douglas Frantz will introduce each panelist and make a short statement about the purpose of the panel and the project.

Then panelists will talk: average 7 minutes for each panelist talk.

Governor Michael Dukakis

Professor Nazli Choucri

State Minister Yasuhide Nakayama

President Vaira Vike-Freiberga

Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija

Ms. Merve Hitkok

 

Then the moderator will discuss with panelists.

Finally, moderator will sum up views of panelists at the end of the session.

 

Time: 8:30 am – 10:30 am, EST, Feb 19, 2021.

 

Guidance on content:

Among the issues addressed by the Panel are the following:

 

  • Reviewing legal frameworks for AI and identifying essential elements for an international AI legal framework.
  • Defining methods to present abuses by governments and businesses in uses of AI, Data, Digital Technology, Cyberspace, (including attacking companies, organizations, and individuals on the Internet)
  • Articulating norms to manage robotics and cybersecurity, protecting Social Contract for the AI Age, democratic values, transparency, and accountability while ensuring equal opportunities across diverse socio-economic landscapes.
  • Supporting the provisions of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime as well as the EU General Directives and/or incorporating basic principles thereof
  • Sanctioning entities –including governments, businesses, and not-for profit actors — who violate the AI International Accord and/or Social Contract for the AI Age).

Purpose and Scope of the AI International Accord Initiative

–       Create an initial framework for the AI International Accord

–       Establish a World Alliance for Digital Governance focused on supporting to support the AI International Accord and the Social Contract for the AI Age.

–       Design a Monitoring System to observe all abuses in applications of AI by private and public entities, and to identify notable violations of an emergent AI International Accord and of the Social Contract for the AI Age.

–       Provide an initial “proof of concept” – in terms of implementation and operations in practice – focused on AIWS City

–       Explore potentials for reviewing and regulating potential deviances or damage created by algorithm development and implementation.

 

1. Process toward AI International Accord Initiative (Proposed)

The following process is currently envisaged:

(1)  Creation of Draft-Framework prepared by the AIIA Team

(2) Discussion and Review by

  • ·      AIIA Panels organized by Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute
  • ·       Quad Roundtables organized by Boston Global Forum and Riga Conference 2021

(3) Communication of progress with governments and international organizations

(4) Creation of “alliances-for-system-test” to focus on challenges of implementation

(5) Implementation of on-site operation and assessments at AIWS City

(6) Assessment of results to this point

2. Review, Revisions, and Refinements

Identify the operational steps to be undertaken in, and addressed, at several levels and in different contexts:

  1.  Local
  2.  National
  3.  Regional
  4.  International

The results will reflect the inputs, reactions, and considerations at each level.

3. Endorsement and Support

We shall explore (and seek to obtain) the support of the following entities

 

–       First                 Quad group and EU

–       Second            OECD countries

–       Third               United Nations

–       Fourth            Russia and China

4. Host and Partners:

Host: Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute

 

Active Partners:

World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid

Riga Conference 2021

United Nations Academic Impact

 

Potential Partners:

European Commission

US, Japan, Australia, India, Sweden, Latvia

5. Timeline of Key Events:

Quad Roundtable April, 2021

AI International Accord

 

Riga Conference 2021

Session on AIIA

 

World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid, September 2021

World Leaders and AIIA

AIWS City as the place for initial implementation of 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

    6.   Leadership:

–            The Panel is convened under the leadership of Governor Michael Dukakis, and President Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

    7.   AIIA Team:

–       Nazli Choucri

–       Tuan Nguyen

–       Thomas Patterson

–       David Silbersweig

–       Merve Hickok

–       Alex Sandy Pentland

–       Vint Cerf

–       Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija

–       Prime Minister Esko Aho,

–       Yasuhide Nakayama

–       Douglas Frantz

–       P.S Raghavan

–       Kimberley Kitching

–       Zaneta Ozolina

–       Stavros Lambrinidis

–       Judea Pearl

–       Randall Davis

–       Sandis Sraders

    8.  Assistants: 

Larissa Zutter

Minh Nguyen

     9.   Official Online Host of Events

AIWS Palace at AIWS City

Message’s Father of Internet Vint Cerf to Vietnamese on Lunar New Year

Message’s Father of Internet Vint Cerf to Vietnamese on Lunar New Year

In a time of great challenge, we look to technology and its judicious use and an upwelling of human compassion. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic with its devastating health and economic consequences, our ability to work together is among the most vital strengths of our species. The invention of machine learning and other forms of artificial intelligence is already playing a key role in improving our well-being. These technologies that augment our human capacity have delivered vaccines in record times. In the midst of such troubled times, we can celebrate the tools we use, including the Internet, to collaborate on a global scale never before possible. May this New Year bring essential improvement in the well-being of the Vietnamese people wherever they may be.

Vint Cerf

UCLA Professor Judea Pearl is named 2020 World Leader in the Artificial Intelligence World Society

UCLA Professor Judea Pearl is named 2020 World Leader in the Artificial Intelligence World Society

Professor Judea Pearl has been named World Leader of 2020 by the Artificial Intelligence World Society for his watershed work on quantifying cause-and-effect relationships in statistical analysis. This is a significant leap forward because statisticians heretofore focused on correlations, and remained mute on causality as being within their analytical realm.

In presenting the award to Prof. Pearl, Gov. Michael J. Dukakis, Chairman of the Michael Dukakis institute, stated, “I am inspired by your watershed work in establishing cause-and-effect relationships as a statistical and mathematical concept; most especially as we strive to more completely understand the rapidly evolving impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on society.”

He went on to say, “Your latest book, “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect,” provides us with the new tools needed to navigate the uncharted waters of causality for students of statistics, economics, social sciences, mathematics and most urgently today, epidemiology.” The Michael Dukakis institute, under the umbrella of its Artificial Intelligence World Society Innovation Network (AIWS-IN) AIWS.net, is calling for artificial intelligence to be developed and deployed in ways that benefit all mankind. Professor Pearl will serve as Mentor to AIWS Innovation Network programs in support of these goals.

He added, “With your remarkable achievements in mind, I am thrilled to have you accept this important honor as the: World Leader in the Artificial Intelligence World Society for 2020. To be sure, the AIWS.net is eager to explore and apply your Causal Models to the decision-making process by national governments as well as individual citizens.”

In accepting the award, Prof. Pearl said, “I believe we are kindred spirits in our pursuit of a world where we all share in the concern for our fellow citizens. I also believe the Boston Global Forum; the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation and the AIWS-IN are playing a vital role in helping to inspire leading thinkers and scholars from around the world.”

The AIWS-IN focusses on the ethical, moral, concepts, models, and legal underpinnings of Artificial Intelligence developments at the cusp of the AI Age and plays a pivotal role in bringing together

distinguishes thinkers on the subject. Cofounder of the Michael Dukakis Institute, and AIWS-IN creator Mr. Tuan Nguyen said, “As we enter the age of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning we must ask: will machines that think humans, perhaps with human emotions, create a better life for us, or will AI take us to a dystopian world of economic upheaval and social unrest. Given the promise and peril of AI, we are seeking a broad base of ideas for a Social Contract for AI Age that will foster, safety, security and sustainability in the AI Age, something Professor Pearl can help us achieve.”

Founded in 2012, The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is a not-for-profit think tank based in Boston, Massachusetts. Our mission is to bring together, in an open and accessible public forum, an eclectic and engaging spectrum of esteemed academic leaders, real-world experts, thought leaders, media experts and promising young leaders, who are dedicated to seeking peaceful solutions to the most contentious issues of our times.

As an offshoot of The Boston Global Forum, The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) was born in 2015 with the mission of generating ideas, creating solutions, and deploying initiatives to solve global issues, especially focused on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence.

Further details are available by contacting Mr. Tuan Anh Nguyen, Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of the Boston Global Forum, and Director of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation.

 

Mr. Nguyen may be reached at [email protected].