Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT, one of 7 most powerful data scientists, co-founder of the AIWS Social Contract and co-founder of the AIWS Innovation Network, contributes the first words for writing of the AIWS Social Contract:
“Over centuries society has constructed a social contract between government and citizens. First included was land, then capital, then finally labor. Now data is a core part of society, immensely valuable and critical for proper functioning of a modern society, and so data must be integrated into the social contract. Data should be regarded as a first-class resource belonging to citizens, like labor or capital or land, and just as with these older citizen resources we need to construct institutions and laws that control rights, ownership, and use.”
The final version of AIWS Social Contract will be presented at Policy Dialog, co-organized by the Boston Global Forum and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid at Harvard and MIT on April 28-29, 2020.