by BGF | Jan 23, 2019 | Event Updates
On January 17, Vietnam National Television (VTV) and Boston Global Forum (BGF) held The AIWS Roundtable discussed on AIWS for Leadership and Innovation and also honored Nguyen Anh Tuan as VTV Person of Year 2018.
With Journalist Ta Bich Loan (VTV) and Barry Nolan (BGF) as moderators of the event, the top leaders, experts and professors gave their opinions about the near- and long-term priorities of AIWS which seeks to apply AI to improve politics and society.
AIWS is an initiative established by the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation on November 22, 2017, as a way to build a social model that will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) safe, trustworthy, transparent, and humanistic. Out of Boston, many AIWS groups are established in various countries such as Japan, England, New Zealand, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Australia, Russia…
The framework also honored Nguyen Anh Tuan – the Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Boston Global Forum (BGF) as VTV Person of Year 2018. This award is for his dedication to working hard to build Artificial Intelligence World Society and AI-Government.
The Award Ceremony was celebrated in honor atmosphere. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (Chairman of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation, Co-Founder, Chairman of The Board of Directors and Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum) sent a letter of congratulations to Mr. Tuan with sincere compliments.
Governor Michael Dukakis sent a letter of congratulations to Mr. Tuan.
“There would be no Boston Global Forum without Tuan. He and Tom Patterson conceived the idea, and they then asked me and John Quelch of the Harvard Business School to join them as the organization’s founders. Ever since, it’s been Tuan who has taken the lead in expanding our network of scholars, government officials, business leaders, and social activists.
And it was Tuan, through the creation of the Michael Dukakis Institute as part of BGF, who originated and developed our path-breaking ethical initiatives in the areas of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.
We all owe Tuan an enormous debt for establishing the Boston Global Forum as a premier venue for promoting world peace and security.” wrote Gov. Dukakis. (Congratulations letter HERE)
Being a person who cooperated with Mr. Tuan on many programs and projects, Ms. Ta Bich Loan (the Director of Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Channel and one of Vietnam’s top 50 most influential women 2017) told: “If there is one word that I would associate with Mr. Tuan, it would be “pioneer.” Mr. Tuan sees important needs and opportunities before others do, and he then develops them to a point where they can be advanced by others.”
She added: “Mr. Tuan was done this many times. He did in creating the first software for Dalat University, creating VietNet, Vietnam’s first internet transmission net, establishing VietNamNet, Vietnam’s first online news site.
And here in Boston, while at the Shorenstein Center, he created a blueprint for online news outlets in developing countries and developed the idea that led to the creation of the Boston Global Forum.” (Honor Remark HERE)
Ms. Ta Bich Loan – the Director of Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Channel and one of Vietnam’s top 50 most influential women 2017.
“I have followed with admiration your work with the Boston Global Forum, which is a remarkable addition to the Boston community. You identified a need for the organization. And you did all of that in a remarkably few years, just as you did with Vietnam Net. You are that rare visionary who is skilled at giving life to a vision,” said Mr. Nicco Mele (The Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and an academic research center in the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University), a fellow of Mr. Tuan. (Congratulations letter HERE)
“You are that rare visionary who is skilled at giving life to a vision,” said Mr. Nicco Mele about Nguyen Anh Tuan.
Although being unable to attend the event, Professor Tom Patterson (Co-Founder and Member of Board of Directors, Boston Global Forum, and Research Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation) sent his congratulations and shared their long-term partner through a video.
Since his first meeting in 2005, Professor Thomas Patterson has rated Mr. Tuan as one of the smartest and most interesting people he ever knew and worked with.
Through the extremely meaningful event, our special character – Mr. Tuan was deeply moved by the feelings of his colleagues during the working process. He was extremely grateful and gave his deep thanks to his friends who have supported him during BGF’s six years. He also appreciated his colleagues at VietNamNet and said thank to VTV for this recognition and honor.
About AIWS, he believes “deeply that our AI World Society (AIWS) initiative will contribute to a more prosperous and safe world. AIWS ethics and standards can guide the development of AI, and serve to underpin AI-Government, which can bring us an unprecedented era of government responsiveness and accountability. Our AI World Society is a model for the future, one marked by greater transparency and a deeper commitment to our common values. BGF will work with its associates to ensure the realization of this vision. AIWS is a concept, and undertaking, that is worthy of our efforts and, indeed, worthy of pursuit by socially minded individuals everywhere.”
(Mr.Tuan’s speech HERE)
by BGF | Jan 21, 2019 | News, AI World Society Distinguished Lecture
On January 17, Vietnam National Television (VTV) and Boston Global Forum (BGF) held a meaningful event – The AIWS Roundtable discussed on AIWS for Leadership and Innovation and also honored Nguyen Anh Tuan as VTV Person of Year 2018.
With Journalist Ta Bich Loan (VTV) and Barry Nolan (BGF) as moderators of the event, the top leaders, experts and professors gave their opinions about the near- and long-term priorities of AIWS which seeks to apply AI to improve politics and society.
Professor Jason Furman (Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; President Obama’s chief economist; professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics) was the lead speaker. After his brief opening remarks, Marc Rotenberg (President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center – EPIC) and Professor Nazli Choucri (Professor at MIT; member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers; co-founder, member of GC Development Council; Global Citizenship Educators at Global Citizenship Education Network) gave their concise special speeches.
Professor David Silbersweig (Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Brigham and Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals; chairman of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Institute for the Neurosciences; professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School) and other AI experts had a lively discussion.
The two most notable presentations of Prof. Jason Furman and Marc Rotenberg distinguished the areas of policies, laws, standards, ethical rules, and such, to find the solutions. AIWS 7-layer models and AI-Government are respected as good models in deeply applied AI for humankind in the better future.
The framework also honored Nguyen Anh Tuan – the Director of The Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI), the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Boston Global Forum (BGF) as VTV Person of Year 2018.
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
Cybersecurity attacks are becoming more sophisticated and dangerous. Artificial intelligence cannot stand outside. It has even been used by attackers. However, it also becomes a cyber defense weapon and a “savior” for many companies, both large and small.
There are five platforms that use AI for cybersecurity:
- TAA (The Symantec Targeted Attack Analytics)
The Symantec Targeted Attack Analytics (TAA) technology enables Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) customers to take full advantage of AI and machine learning to find targeted attacks.
Unlike traditional tools, TAA takes the processes, knowledge, and capabilities of the security experts and turn it into AI. Therefore, the security experts will not need to waste their time to sift through false positives.
- X Sophos Intercept Tool
With deep learning neural system working like our brain, the Intercept Tool is trained to analyze deeply and then it will find out if that file is well or dangerous in just 20 milliseconds.
Intercept X analyzes behaviors to limit new ransomware and boot-records attacks. As a result, Intercept X will be able to make more accurate predictions faster and also with fewer false-positives as compared with traditional machine learning.
- Darktrace Antigena
Darktrace Antigena is the AI cyber defense solution which is autonomously fighting fast-moving threats without brief information about attacks or signatures.
It can manage user access to the networks and the connections through other Antigena products.
- QRadar Advisor IBM
QRadar Advisor uses AI for exploring the cyber attacks. This tool is able to find out the automatic cases with its cognitive reasoning. QRadar Advisor of IBM has real-time learning capabilities and discovers hidden relationships in the knowledge they knew. It could give clever causes, maintain huge banks of information, and identify high risks items.
- Cognito Vectra
Using machine learning, data, and behavioural analytics, Cognito Vectra uncovers secret attackers in real-time. The platform detects signs of danger to track hidden attackers.
To sum it up, we are developing AI, and it is up to us make sure AI make the best decisions. To give AI the abilities to do all of these tasks, it requires monitoring, regulations as well as ethical frameworks, are somethings the Michael Dukakis Institute is working on.
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
A new AI created at the University of Surrey can distinguish and help decrease one of the top reasons for hospitalization for individuals living with dementia: urinary tract infections (UTI).
UTI is a disease of any piece of the urinary system. The indications incorporate torment in the lower of the stomach, blood in urine, expecting to urinate all of a sudden or more frequently than expected and changes in state of mind and behaviour.
In a paper distributed by PLOS ONE, researchers from the University of Surrey’s Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) detail how, in a NHS clinical preliminary at that point utilized novel machine learning calculations to distinguish early UTI symptoms.
The test was a piece of the TIHM (Technology Integrated Health Management) for dementia venture. The task, which is a piece of the NHS Test Beds Program and is financed by NHS England the Office for Life Sciences, enabled clinicians to remotely screen the soundness of individuals with dementia living at home, with the assistance of a system of web empowered gadgets, for example, ecological and movement checking sensors, and essential body flag observing gadgets.
As indicated by The World Health Organization, around 50 million individuals worldwide have dementia. This number is evaluated to reach 152 million by 2050. Professor Helen Rostill, Director of Innovation and Development at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, stated: “The TIHM for dementia contemplate is a shared undertaking that has united the NHS. Our point has been to make an Internet of Things drove framework that utilizes machine figuring out how to caution our clinicians to potential medical issues that we can venture in and treat early. The framework enhances the lives of individuals with dementia and their carers and could likewise decrease pressure on the NHS.”
This technology could offer opportunities for the world of AI. Yet, giving it so much power can result in a development speed beyond our control. It needed to be careful monitored and regulated for the machine as well as its developers. There are organizations such as the Michael Dukakis Institute (with the AIWS Initiative and the AIWS 7-Layer Model) are constantly researching and raising people’s awareness to ensure the future of AI.
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
In March 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will hold OECD Summit on Going Digital in Paris.
This is a high-level closing event of Going Digital Project since 2017. This summit will be attended by high-level policy makers and key stakeholders to share stories and their opinion about key areas of policy.
OECD Summit on Going Digital will be organized in two day. There are 14 topics:
- Promises of digital transformation
- Measuring digital transformation
- Strategies for digital transformation
- Addressing digital divides
- Making digital transformation work for growth & productivity
- Policies for the digital age
- Day 1 wrap-up
- Jobs in the digital age
- Education and skills for the digital age
- Trade, investment and competition in the digital age
- Imagining 2030
- Can we ensure privacy in a data-driven world?
- Well-being and the digital transformation
- Realising the potential of new digital technologies
- Steering towards a better digital future
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
In the time of AI superpowers, Finland can’t coordinate the US and China. So this nation is executing an aspiring test to show the essentials of AI to 1% of the populace in this nation, equal to 55,000 individuals. When that objective is met, the goal is expanding the extent of the populace that knows about AI. This program is a piece of the push to enable Finland to lead the application and utilization of innovation.
The Finnish government is currently deploying it nationwide. As of mid-December, more than 10,500 people, including at least 4,000 people outside the Finnish border, took the course. More than 250 companies have also committed to training part or all of their employees.
At the heart of promoting economic, skilled Finnish workers is another attempt to create a more modern and modern democracy. That’s what made Teemu Roos, the founder of the course, relate educator of software engineering at the University of Helsinki, begin the project from the earliest starting point. He wanted to outfit voters with the data expected to think about the speculation and manage the country’s AI.
It is a key strategy to address the problem which countries face in the world: inadequate knowledge of technology. Especially in the United States, a contemplate distributed a week ago by the AI Management Center at Oxford University has noted that numerous Americans don’t perceive the nature or ubiquity of AI, which makes labeling Facebook photographs and Netflix recommendation instrumental. Strategy creators are similarly befuddled about the extension and abilities for innovation. Without a sensible comprehension, the United States is in danger of altering the AI too aimlessly, or coincidentally controlling advancement or not limiting outcomes.
In this way, during the time spent affirming its contribution in the worldwide AI economy, Finland is pushing its initiative in an unexpected way: it is to demonstrate to different nations generally accepted methods to alter AI to be increasingly thorough.
MDI is working to promote the AIWS 7-Layer Model to build Next Generation Democracy. This invention will hopefully provide a service that helps the development of AI in order to protect achievements and reduce risks from spreaded and actual harms that AI could create for humanity.
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | News
On September 2018, Former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon attended at the Munhwa (Cultural) Future Report held at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul, Korea.
Former Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gave a speech on human evolution and AI (artificial intelligence) revolution. He was honored as a World Leader for Peace, Security and Development Award by the Boston Global Forum in 2016.
In the first Munhwa Future Report forum, the topic was on misunderstandings about AI and providing a mutual understanding of future developments.
In the remaining sessions of the forum, participants discussed on top global issues which are increasing threats and conflicts against world peace, population aging and decreasing growth potential, the technological big bang, and environmental issues. The purpose of the discussion is answering the question what Korea need to do for a good future.
There are many professors and experts took part in the Munhwa Future Report such as Professor Max Tegmark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor Dae-shik Kim of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Professor Stuart Russell of UC Berkeley.
by BGF | Jan 20, 2019 | Distinguished Innovation Leader, News, Boston Global Forum Awards
Talking in 2018, the Reading Promotion Project “Library” distributed a video with the preference of previous President, Vaira Vike-Freiberga where she shared her encounters on reading books and literature.
She believes that literature represented everything written in letters. Fundamentally, the beginnings of the composed declaration were exceptionally handy, associated with property and power. About fiction, it initially created regarding legends, fantasies, and somewhat with religious traditions, gradually as a kind advanced into epic.
“Individuals’ poetry has been rousing with its creative ability and with its cadenced, smooth dialect. Pretty much society verse has inspired numerous journalists.” She believes that “nobody could view himself as an informed individual if his school’s scholarly program had not had the first oral stage, that was, both fantasies and society verse. Folk songs are melodious verse.” She said: “The song is alive if there are people who sing him.”
All above, the former President believes, that word that was composed all the more regularly would spread electronically. Conversely, electronic could toss anything out, they could get back, but she mentioned that book could not disappear completely in the next 100 years.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga was honored as the Distinguished Innovation Leader for her distinguished work in the humanities and social sciences by the Boston Global Forum and the Michael Dukakis Institute on May 15, 2018.
by BGF | Jan 13, 2019 | News
On this week, AIWS talkshow for Leadership and Innovation will be co-organized by Boston Global Forum (BGF) and Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Chanel.
The moderators of the program will be Journalist Ta Bich Loan (the Director of Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Channel and one of Vietnam’s top 50 most influential women 2017), together with Barry Nolan (the former presenter on Comcast Cable’s CN8 channel in the US, and winner of multiple Emmy Awards). In this event, participants will discuss on AI in general and The Artificial Intelligence World Society (AIWS).
Journalist Ta Bich Loan, Director of Vietnam Televisions VTV3 Channel
A year after the AIWS was born, it has spread its influence to the world’s leading science and technology centers as well as political and cultural centers. Rt. Hon. Liam Byrne MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Hodge Hill, Shadow Digital Minister, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Growth, delivered the first AI World Society Distinguished Lecture at Global Cybersecurity Day 2018. On April 25, 2018, OECD Secretary, General Angel Gurria, receive the first world leader in AIWS Award at BGF-G7 Summit Conference at Harvard University Faculty Club. AI-Government, a component of the AIWS became a topic in a section at AI World Conference and Expo which was held in Boston in December 2018; besides that Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation (MDI) will be the core partner who organizes AI-Government conference in DC in June 2019. Out of Boston, many AIWS groups are established in various countries such as Japan, England, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Austria, New Zealand, Australia, Russia…
This event will have the presence of not only two famous anchors, but also many leading professors and experts in AI technology: Prof. Jason Furman (economist and professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics), Mr. Nicco Mele (The Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and an academic research center in the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University), Professor Nazli Choucri (Member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers; Co-founder, member of GC Development Council; Global Citizenship Educators at Global Citizenship Education Network), Marc Rotenberg (President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center – EPIC) and many other prominent characters.
