The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is delighted to convene a pivotal conference on April 30, 2024, titled "Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity." Hosted at the prestigious Harvard University Loeb House, this event will bring together esteemed thought leaders,...
Boston Global Forum to Honor Dr. Alondra Nelson with the 2024 World Leader in AI World Society Award
Boston, MA - April 10, 2024 – Boston Global Forum (BGF) is proud to announce that Dr. Alondra Nelson, former Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden, former Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Harold F. Linder Professor at...
How To Improve The Financial Services Industry With Artificial Intelligence And Blockchain
Blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) solve different tasks, but they can work together to improve many processes in the financial services industry, from customer service to loan application reviews and payment processing. Adopting AI and blockchain...
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
Artificial intelligence owes a lot of its smarts to Judea Pearl. In the 1980s he led efforts that allowed machines to reason probabilistically. Now he’s one of the field’s sharpest critics. In his latest book, “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect,” he...
Discussion from the AIWS Roundtable: Transparency is not a luxury
The world’s current growing pandemic of the Wuhan virus amplifies the paramount and ultimate goal of our AI initiative. Our vision is to establish a universal AI value system ensuring that AI technology advancement would make lives better and not give ruling...
Professor John Quelch, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum, contribute video 7Cs to protect from COVID-19.
Professor John Quelch, co-founder of the Boston Global Forum, Vice Provost, University of Miami, Dean, Miami Herbert Business School and Leonard M. Miller University Professor. Recently, Professor Quelch has contributed a video to advise people preventing Coronavirus...
A Radical Solution to Scale AI Technology
Most C-suite executives know they need to integrate AI capabilities to stay competitive, but too many of them fail to move beyond the proof of concept stage. They get stuck focusing on the wrong details or building a model to prove a point rather than solve a problem....
The Why of the World
“Correlation is not causation.” Though true and important, the warning has hardened into the familiarity of a cliché. Stock examples of so-called spurious correlations are now a dime a dozen. As one example goes, a Pacific island tribe believed flea infestations to be...