By Lily L. Tsai, Alex Pentland, Alia Braley, Nuole Chen, José Ramón Enríquez, and Anka Reuel BGF are pleased to introduce new report of MIT professor Alex Pentland, a board member of the Boston Global Forum. Online discourse faces challenges in facilitating...
On March 21, 2024, the United Nations General Assembly achieved a historic milestone by adopting, through consensus, a resolution spearheaded by the United States on "Seizing the opportunities of safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence systems for...
During Governor Dukakis’s 90th Birthday Celebration on November 2, 2023, held at Harvard University Loeb House and organized by the Boston Global Forum (BGF), an exciting and innovative initiative was unveiled. In collaboration with Amma, a globally esteemed spiritual...
OpenAI's board at first refused to entertain the possibility of Altman returning, but then something happened they could not ignore: 702 out of OpenAI's 770 employees committed to leaving the company unless Altman was restored. The employees also asked that a new...
On November 15, 2024, the Institute of Future and Innovation Studies at John Cabot University, Rome, hosted a roundtable, "Global Challenges and the UN 2030 Sustainability Goals: Navigating a World in Crisis," moderated by Francesco Lapenta, its director. This event...
Regardless, the terrorist attacks on innocent civilians in Israel by Hamas on October 7th were more brutal than reported and highly problematic. On the other hand, the reporting and social media coverage of these heinous attacks by Hamas terrorists were sugar-coated,...
The comprehensive, even sweeping, set of guidelines for artificial intelligence that the White House unveiled in an executive order on Oct. 30, 2023, shows that the U.S. government is attempting to address the risks posed by AI. The order is only a step, however, and...
October 29, 2023 Dear our friends, The alarm over the “existential threat” of AI is resounding throughout social, popular, and trade media. Calls for the pause, regulation and ethical oversight over AI are ubiquitous. Tech giants like Open AI, Meta, MS, Google...