On November 25, 2024, at the Boston Global Forum (BGF) event held at Harvard University's Loeb House—which featured the Ceremony Honoring French President Emmanuel Macron with the 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and the "AI World Society (AIWS) - New...
Ten Steps to Win the AI Race
Mark Kennedy’s speech at the BGF Conference “AIWS – New Democracy” Harvard University Loeb House, November 25, 2024 During my first year in Congress in 2001, I faced a vote on whether to maintain Normal Trade Relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). I...
World leaders say farewells to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
The Shinzo Abe Digital Memorial Hall on AIWS City introduces select quotes from world leaders: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was "stunned and deeply saddened" by news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on Friday hours after he was shot...
Shifting sands for AI in Europe: Spain unveils Europe’s first sandbox for artificial intelligence
Since its release in April 2021, the draft AI regulations (the “Regulations”), also referred to as the EU AI Act, have acted as a catalyst of legal, political, and societal developments within the field of AI. Forming the basis of many of the developing trends for...
Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe US
A consequence relatively rarely discussed in the context of the US Supreme Court judgment on access and right to abortion, as affirmed in the earlier Roe v Wade case, is the question of the digital privacy of those who seek online information about the procedure or...
Happy July 4th: Remaking the World Requires Reimagining It
Concluding from the Chapter 23 of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment: Apply AIWS Ecosystem at AIWS City: A Model for the Digital Age by Nguyen Anh Tuan, Boston Global Forum CEO “The great question of the Digital and AI Age is not technological...
The UK has ambitions to lead the way in AI Governance and progression
With the UK professing a global digital outlook, its strength in artificial intelligence (AI) reflects its ability to compete confidently on the world stage, so it is important to analyze whether the fundamentals are in place for the UK to go even further and take a...
The EU AI Act Will Have Global Impact, but a Limited Brussels Effect
The European Union’s (EU) AI Act (AIA) aspires to establish the first comprehensive regulatory scheme for artificial intelligence, but its impact will not stop at the EU’s borders. In fact, some EU policymakers believe it is a critical goal of the AIA to set a...