Professor Nazli Choucri, a member of the BGF Board of Directors, delivered a talk at the BGF Conference "AIWS - New Democracy" on November 25, 2024, at Harvard University's Loeb House. Watch her full discussion here.
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Balancing AI Innovation and Regulation: Alex Pentland’s Keynote at BGF “AIWS – New Democracy” Conference
Professor Alex Pentland, a member of the BGF Board of Directors, delivered a talk at the BGF Conference "AIWS - New Democracy" on November 25, 2024, at Harvard University's Loeb House. He highlighted the intricate balance between fostering AI innovation and...
EU Publishes Groundbreaking AI Act, Initial Obligations Set to Take Effect on February 2, 2025
The original article was published on WilmerHale. The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on July 12, 2024, as “Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying...
Pope: Reconsider the development of lethal autonomous weapons
Pope Francis sends a message to a Hiroshima conference on "AI Ethics for Peace," emphasizing the symbolic importance of discussing peace in a city scarred by atomic tragedy. The BGF presented the paper “Spiritual Values of Religions to Build the Knowledge Platform for...
UNESCO rallies regulators from South-East Europe to debate on the governance of digital platforms
The full article on this UNESCO was published on its website. As happens in different parts of the world, digital platforms in South-East Europe have certainly improved people’s access to information. However, they are also responsible for an increasing spread of...
Congress can kickstart AI regulation by overriding premature state laws
This article was originally published in The Hill. There’s been a great deal of talk in Congress about regulating AI, but most of the legislative action is happening at the state level. If America is to lead the AI charge and create a stable environment for this tech...
Pope to G7: AI is ‘neither objective nor neutral’
On June 1, 2024, the International Inter-religious Conference at the Vatican marked a historic milestone with the groundbreaking ideas presented by Boston Global Forum (BGF) CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan. During the panel titled “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on...
Alex “Sandy” Pentland: Building a Better, Safer Digital Ecosystem
The MIT professor describes practical approaches to improving the internet. This article was originally published on Stanford Human-Centered AI -BGF For Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a longtime professor of information technology at MIT, big societal questions have always...