These are the presentations of Professors Alex “Sandy” Pentland and Lily Tsai, MIT at the BGF Conference on April 30, 2024. They discussed utilizing AI in constructive, ethical, and democratic manners for a better world and civic life. Alex Sandy Pentland From my...
The Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security is rooted in the principles articulated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that emphasized the need to for peace and security, especially in the Indo-Pacific region, against rising authoritarian and revanchist powers, and for...
Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard Kennedy School, Co-founder of the Boston Global Forum and AIWS.net, is co-author of the Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI. He recently posted his writing in the Opinion Section of Boston Globe, July 27,...
Professor Caroline A. Jones, MIT, has joined the History of AI Board at AIWS.net. She is a Professor in History, Theory, and Criticism of the Architecture Department at MIT. She wrote a chapter of the book “Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking At AI” (2019), whose...
There were recommendations and suggestions from this conference to establish alliances to protect and strengthen democracy to face threats that undermine democracy and threats from China. In July, there were statements and speeches of leaders echoing these...
Current machine learning platforms largely fail to provide time-series predictions because “correlations that have held in the past may simply not continue to hold in the future,” the London-based company causalLens notes. That’s a particular problem in areas like...
The government does not think it necessary to declare a state of emergency over the novel coronavirus again, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said, despite a nationwide surge in the number of cases. “We’re doing careful monitoring with a strong sense of tension, but...
The World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) in partnership with the Boston Global Forum (BGF) is organizing a Policy Lab on Transatlantic Approaches to Digital Governance: A New Social Contract in the Age of Artificial Intelligence that will take place on...