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...
I was drafting a little Four Pillars article on some statements and proclamations made over the week, but a notable event just had to happen in the Middle East again. Not to make a mockery of a death, but Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is confirmed dead following a...
The Social Contract 2020, A New Social Contract in the Age of AI, sets the foundation for a new historical chapter: the emergence of AI societies. Governor Michael Dukakis stressed the importance of studying history to prevent past mistakes from repeating in the...
On May 27, Professor Alex Pentland, Director of MIT Connection Science, co-founder of AIWS.net, co-author of the Social Contract 2020, spoke at the World Bank’s The Prosperity Collaborative’s inaugural online event. The Prosperity Collaborative is a coalition of...
The future of artificial intelligence can be either exciting or worrisome depending on who you talk to. Some believe that AI may take over humanity, while others believe that we’re far away from AI achieving anything close to human intelligence. One author recently...
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - a hypothetical machine capable of any and all of the intellectual tasks performed by humans - is considered by many to be a pipe dream. A long-standing feature of science fiction, AGI has achieved a cultural reputation of both...
On May 20, 2018, “The Book of Why” by professor Judea Pearl was published. Governor Michael Dukakis said on March 20, 2020: “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect,” provides us with the new tools needed to navigate the uncharted waters of causality for...
COVID-19 doesn’t create cookie-cutter infections. Some people have extremely mild cases while others find themselves fighting for their lives. Clinicians are working with limited resources against a disease that is very hard to predict. Knowing which patients are most...