Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, It is with great pleasure and honor that I stand before you today to celebrate the remarkable contributions of Dr. Alondra Nelson as she receives the prestigious 2024 World Leader in AI World Society Award. Dr. Nelson's...
The Shinzo Abe Youth Leader Award
The Shinzo Abe Youth Leader Award recognizes outstanding individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation, and contributions to Japanese society, particularly in the context of the Age of AI and Digital advancement. This prestigious award honors...
Google’s AI breast cancer screening tool is learning to generalize across countries
In a preliminary test, a model trained only on data from UK women still performed better than experts on US patients. The news: DeepMind and Google Health have developed a new AI system to help doctors detect breast cancer early. The researchers trained an algorithm...
Essay by the President of Latvia for the United Nations 2045 Project
Here is the highlight from President Vaira Vike-Freiberga’s essay: The only thing missing in the AI world is Smart people who will be smarter all on their own, without aid or support of electronic props and prostheses. Who needs to be able to quote poetry or remember...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Totally Changing Everything
AI is rapidly spreading throughout civilization, where it has the promise of doing everything from enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate the streets to making more accurate hurricane forecasts. On an everyday level, AI figures out what ads to show you on the web,...
Brazil to create national artificial intelligence strategy
The Brazilian government has taken another step towards the creation of public policies around artificial intelligence (AI). A national AI strategy will be created as a response to the worldwide race for leadership in the field and the need to discuss the future of...
Professor Nazli Choucri speaks about AIWS Social Contract 2020
On Global Cybersecurity Day December 12, 2019, at Loeb House, Harvard University, Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT, a co-founder of the AIWS Social Contract 2020 and AIWS Innovation Network, presented updated ideas of the AIWS Social Contract 2020. The AIWS Social...
Assistant Secretary Nam Pham speaks about AI World Society Innovation Network
On Global Cybersecurity Day, December 12, at Loeb House, Harvard University, at the launching of AI World Society (AIWS) Innovation Network, the Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade, Government of Massachusetts, Mr. Nam Pham,...