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Shared Wisdom for the AI Age: Building the AI World Society Model

Shared Wisdom for the AI Age: Building the AI World Society Model

Professor Alex Pentland’s new book Shared Wisdom offers a timely and profound foundation for the development of the AI World Society (AIWS) model. His central message is clear: to build a flourishing society, we must design our technologies based on deep understanding...

Happy Birthday to Global Enlightenment Leader Judea Pearl

Happy Birthday to Global Enlightenment Leader Judea Pearl

September 4th was the birthday of Professor Judea Pearl. The Boston Global Forum congratulates his 86th birthday to him, the 2020 World Leader in AIWS Award recipient, a Distinguished Contributor to Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment, and a...

Accelerating the pace of machine learning

Accelerating the pace of machine learning

Rick Blum, the Robert W. Wieseman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University, "seeks to bring efficiency to distributed learning techniques emerging as crucial to modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). In essence, his...

Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel

Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel

The United Nations Secretary-General has appointed 10 high-level and eminent persons to serve on his inaugural Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Leadership Panel. In line with the mandate of the IGF and as recommended in the Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital...