Yasuhide Nakayama, former State Minister of Defense of Japan, spoke at the BGF Conference "Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity," held on April 30, 2024 at Harvard University Loeb House via video call from Japan. Here are some of his key notes:...
With the recent American foreign military aid package finally passing Congress and signed by the White House, one of its corollary, the bill to ban TikTok, is regaining traction in public debate. Since the last round of discourse, the positions of both sides have not...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has traditionally been deployed in the cloud, because AI algorithms crunch massive amounts of data and consume massive computing resources. But AI doesn’t only live in the cloud. In many situations, AI-based data crunching and decisions...
Thinkers and organizations called to build a new social contract in digital age. Some examples are “Do we need a new social contract?” by Maurizio Bussolo and Marc Fleurbaey on Brookings Institution April 11, 2019; “A social contract to transform our world by 2030” at...
Former Gov. Michael Dukakis and Kitty Dukakis are backing Sen. Edward Markey in his primary contest against Rep. Joseph Kennedy III. The former three-term governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee released an endorsement video on Tuesday, crediting Markey's...
Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT Co-founder of the AIWS Innovation Network January 21, 2020 Preface Advances in AI, internet, social media, and threats to cybersecurity...
As his trial begins in the U.S. Senate, the impeachment of President Trump is, at its heart, a question about ethics. Was it proper for the president to withhold U.S. military aid to a strategic foreign ally to leverage its cooperation in an effort that could undercut...
From February 20, 2020, World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, United Nations, and the Boston Global Forum will co-organize the AIWS Innovation Network Roundtable with participants such as world leaders, distinguished thinkers, innovators, and business leaders to...