The Boston Global Forum announces the "Boston Areti AI (BAI)" project, an innovative initiative aimed at designing the concepts and architecture of a special assistant AI to support leaders. The name Areti, meaning “virtue” in Greek, reflects the project's core...
The Week of Elections: Four Pillars week
This week saw three notable elections occurring, all with varying levels of importance for the Four Pillars. Labour has won the UK general election. Although not a formal member of the EU anymore (and Bre-enter does not seem to be a plausible policy as of now), a UK...
Former Prime Minister of Poland speaks at AIWS Roundtable
Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka, WLA-CdM Member, Prime Minister of Poland (1992-1993), spoke at the AIWS Roundtable “Digital Technologies, Elections, and Democracy in times of COVID-19, co-organized by World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and the Boston Global Forum...
Can AI model economic choices?
Tax policy analysis is a well-developed field with a robust body of research and extensive modeling infrastructure across think tanks and government agencies. Because tax policy affects everyone, and especially wealthy people, it gets both a lot of attention and...
AIWS is a strategic alliance partner of 2020 AI World Government
The AI World Government was organized for the first time was organized in Washington DC in June 2019 with support of the Boston Global Forum, Michael Dukakis Institute and AI World Society. This year, the AI World Government was planned in June 2020 in Washington DC,...
Pompeo’s statement and The Clean Network program
On August 5, 2020, State Secretary Michael Pompeo announced the expansion of the clean network to safeguard America’s assets. The program highlights many points that were also from the Social Contract 2020 The Clean Network program is the Trump Administration’s...
Truera applies explainability AI research to grow its model evaluation platform
As AI impacts more industries and areas of society, startups are building testing tools to help companies and governments assess the state of their models and identify potential compliance issues. Google Cloud chief AI scientist Andrew Moore recently predicted that...
Thomas Patterson in the Boston Globe: “The GOP’s moral trap”
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,...