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...
Pope: Interreligious Dialogue is necessary in the fight for peace
Pope Francis praises the Focolare Movement for fostering interreligious dialogue and for their efforts in unity, mutual respect, and peacebuilding. By Francesca Merlo This article was originally published on Vatican News -BGF Greeting members of the Focolare...
Alex Pentland hosted Imagination in Action on January 21 at Davos 2020
MIT IDE co-founders, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, participated in several panel discussions and interviews at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as did IDE co-lead Sandy Pentland. In a year when the main headlines dominating the week were...
AIWS-IN Roundtable started 02/02/2020 with AIWS-IN Roundtable on UN 2045
The World Leadership Alliance – Club de Madrid (WLA-CdM), in partnership with the Boston Global Forum (BGF), is organizing a transatlantic and multi-stakeholder dialogue on global challenges and policy solutions in the context of the need to create a new social...
EPIC Petitions FTC for Regulations on AI Use
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today seeking regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. EPIC – a public interest group that focuses on data privacy issues – said it...
AI meets operations
One of the biggest challenges operations groups will face over the coming year will be learning how to support AI- and ML-based applications. On one hand, ops groups are in a good position to do this; they’re already heavily invested in testing, monitoring, version...
AI healthcare companies set for exponential growth
Companies specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare are in “rude health” and are set for exponential growth over the next five years, according to a new report. The report by adviser and broker finnCap outlines the companies that are employing AI to...
How AI Will Change The Way We Work In 2020
If there is one technology that has become the buzzword of this decade, it would be artificial intelligence (AI). In the beginning of 2010s, consumer natural-language processing (NLP) allowed us to talk to our phones and control smart home appliances reliably. At the...