Originally published by the Shinzo Abe Initiative on LinkedIn. Recently, a groundbreaking dialogue on AI governance took place at Hotel Okura Tokyo under the moderation of Ichiro Fujisaki, the esteemed former Japanese Ambassador to the USA. The discussion focused on...
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
From its epicenter in China, the novel coronavirus has spread to infect 414,179 people and cause no less than 18,440 deaths in at least 160 countries across a three-month span from January 2020 till date. These figures are according to the World Health Organization...
Learning algorithms, which are becoming an increasingly ubiquitous part of our lives, do precisely what they are designed to do: find patterns in the data they are given. The problem, however, is that even if patterns in the data were to lead to very accurate...
Professor Judea Pearl is the father of “Causal Revolution”, a breakthrough in AI to help machine learning can answer question “Why?” and solve problem automating human-level intelligence (sometimes called “strong AI”). The Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis...
When Michael Dukakis Institute set up AI World Society Innovation Network in December 2019 at Loeb House, Harvard University, we would like to use domain name AIWS.net, but at that time, this domain name was already bought and owned by one party, but they do not use...
The COVID19 outbreak has changed the world faster than anyone could have imagined. Forced isolation has shifted meetings and activities to go on through web collaboration tools. Arguably most importantly, the virus has ground the entire economy to a halt. For some...
Customer service agents benefit from real-time and historical sentiment analysis that takes the guesswork out of reading emotions -- especially on phone calls or text-based digital interactions. This gives businesses the insight they need to deliver hyper-personalized...