Nguyen Anh Tuan and Fadi Chedade will speak at the session “The impact of Artificial Intelligence on interpersonal relationships and between religions” at the International Interreligious Conference 2024. The topic of Tuan’s talk is “Spiritual Values of Religions for...
Creating New Models for a Better World with AI Generative AI for Pro-Democracy Platforms
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...
AI And Consciousness: Could It Become ‘Human’?
We have human-sounding AI technology that responds to customer service calls and helps customers navigate the issues they face. We have smart assistants that wake their users up on time, share information about the weather outside and report on the latest news. We...
Governor Michael Dukakis will speak at the United Nations Charter Day Roundtable
Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum and co-author of the Social Contract 2020, will speak at the United Nations Charter Day Roundtable, June 26, 2020. This event is co-organized by the United Nations Academic Impact and the Boston Global...
Discussing the name for a new society in 2045: Intellectual Society
While writing a proposal for the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance (DADG) and developing the Social Contract 2020, I conceived an idea: to upgrade civil society to intellectual society. Father of Internet, Vint Cerf, who was honored as a World Leader in AI...
COVID-19 Could Bring Bias in AI to Pandemic Level Crisis
During the COVID-19 pandemic, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a trusted ally and partner in our daily lives. While there are countless benefits of AI, embedded bias could be determining who keeps their job, what news we see – even who lives or dies – without...
It’s Called Artificial Intelligence — but What Is Intelligence?
A cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system—the mind of a baby. Gurgling infants might seem like no match for artificial intelligence. They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text,...
2020 Bruin Engineers Centennial Reunion: A Talk with Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf
Cerf received his master’s and Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA in the early 1970s. He is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the internet – both of which govern how computers connect to each other and the wider internet. Among his many...