It has been assessed by American and Four Pillars defense officials that the Russian advance on Kharkiv is ‘all but over,’ indicating that Russia has yet again failed to make major advances since 2022, or last year if one counts their gains in the Donbas regions. It...
Greetings of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Participants in the Interreligious Conference of the Focolare Movement
Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! I greet the President of the Focolare Movement, to whom I say that I am praying very much for your country which is suffering at this time. I also warmly welcome all the participants in this Interreligious Conference. I express...
Why health care AI can’t replace medicine’s human component
The AMA deliberately uses the term augmented intelligence (AI)—rather than the more common term “artificial intelligence”—when referring to machine-learning computer algorithms that hold the potential to produce dramatic breakthroughs for health care research,...
AIWS Innovation Network Roundtable: discuss questions to build the Social Contract 2020
As a part of a transatlantic and multi-stakeholder dialogue on global challenges and policy solutions in the context of the need to create the social contract 2020, a new social contract on digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI), co-organized by the...
Governor Dukakis advises for the Center for State Policy Analysis of Tufts
A new nonpartisan research center, with a pair of former governors on its advisory council, is setting out to provide lawmakers and voters with “real-time” analysis of key topics, including projected impacts of ballot questions. Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch...
AIWS Summit 2020: Discussing and building the AIWS Social Contract 2020
From 27 to 29 of April 2020, at Harvard University and MIT, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid are co-organizing a transatlantic and multi-stakeholder dialogue on global challenges and policy solutions in the context of the need...
How To Teach Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence—code that learns—is likely to be humankind’s most important invention. It’s a 60-year-old idea that took off five years ago when fast chips enabled massive computing and sensors, cameras, and robots fed data-hungry algorithms. We’re a couple of...
Tracking Coronavirus with AI
The coronavirus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, continues deadly. More than 31,000 people have now been contracted in China and 630 people have died, per latest figures released by authorities. As the virus already became a global health emergency, AI researchers are...