Over the past week of May 6-12, representatives of the Boston Global Forum met with leaders of prominent think tanks in Washington DC, including the Wilson Center and the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security (GIWPS). Topics of these meetings vary between...
World Leader in AIWS Alondra Nelson and Ami Fields-Meyer at the White House
2024 World Leader in AIWS Award Alondra Nelson wrote about the ceremony to celebrate the spectacular tenure of Ami Fields-Meyer, her former Chief of Staff during her time at the Office of Science and Technology Policy and a speaker at the BGF Conference “Governing the...
New Artificial Intelligence Priorities in the COVID-19 Era
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...
4 Customer Service AI Applications That Work Today
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...
AI vs. Coronavirus: How Artificial Intelligence is Fighting the Pandemic
The deadly coronavirus, which first appeared in mainland China, has now spread across the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a global pandemic and has reported more than 125,000 cases and 4,500 deaths as of March 12, 2020. To lend perspective,...
Private Kit: Safe Path can help prevent and reduce risk of outbreak of diseases to the community, normalizing life and society
An app that tracks where you have been and who you have crossed paths with—and then shares this personal data with other users in a privacy-preserving way—could help curb the spread of Covid-19, says Ramesh Raskar at the MIT Media Lab, who leads the team behind it....
Postponed Policy Lab – AIWS Summit to September 16-18, 2020
With the spread of COVID -19 growing both in Europe and the US, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM) and the Boston Global Forum (BGF) decide to postpone the Boston Policy Lab – AIWS Summit to 16-18, September 2020. While “Transatlantic Approaches on...
Artificial Intelligence Applications: Is Your Business Implementing AI Smartly?
The book Design, Launch, and Scale IoT Services classifies the components of IoT services into technical modules. One of the most important of these is Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article is intended to supplement the book by providing insight into AI and its...