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...
On July 4th, 2024, Governor Michael Dukakis, co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum, and the BGF began a new initiative designed to inspire and guide the youth generation towards values of peace, security, compassion, and innovation. Named "Spiritual and...
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...
There’s no shortage of promises when it comes to AI. Some say it will solve all problems while others warn it will bring about the end of the world as we know it. Both positions regularly play out in Hollywood plotlines like Westworld, Carbon Black, Minority...