Governor Michael Dukakis, Vint Cerf, and Joseph Nye, together with world leaders, discuss the Social Contract 2020

Mar 7, 2020 | News

Former Presidents and PMs from Europe and North America will call for a social contract to govern Artificial Intelligence at Harvard and MIT during a three-day meet April 27-29.

When: April 27 (reception), April 28 and 29

Where: Harvard University and MIT, Cambridge Mass.

Who: World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, an organization of former world leaders & The Boston Global Forum think tank, with Harvard and MIT Scholars

Featured Speakers:

Vint Cerf, widely regarded as the “Father of the Internet”

Joseph S. Nye Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Moderator: Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis,  cofounder of The Boston Global Forum and AIWS Innovation Network

Former Western leaders will meet in Cambridge to create a Social Contract for the Artificial Intelligence Age aimed at enhancing life, fostering equality, and preventing AI—machines that learn and think like humans—from creating a dystopian world of oppression, haves and have-nots and economic disruption.

Delegates will develop a Social Contract to harness Artificial Intelligence in ways that improve our lives without economic disruption and political upheaval.

During the sessions The Boston Global Forum’s AIWS Innovation Network will offer a new model for the AI economy aimed at creating new opportunities, fostering peace, and preserving human rights.