At the BGF Conference “Governing the Future: AI, Democracy, and Humanity,” hosted at Harvard University Loeb House on April 30, 2024, Dr. Alondra Nelson was honored with the World Leader in AIWS 2024 Award, and the “Knowledge Platform for AI” was introduced and...
BGF and Shinzo Abe Initiative to organize roundtable for world leaders in Washington DC
Over the past week of May 6-12, representatives of the Boston Global Forum met with leaders of prominent think tanks in Washington DC, including the Wilson Center and the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security (GIWPS). Topics of these meetings vary between...
Microsoft Vision AI Developer Kit Simplifies Building Vision-Based Deep Learning Projects
Computer vision is one of the most popular applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Image classification, object detection and object segmentation are some of the use cases of computer vision-based AI. These techniques are used in a variety of consumer and...
Framework for Peace and Security in the 21st century
SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSANTS Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, Co-Chair Stratos Efthymiou, Consul General of Greece in Boston, Co-Chair Prof. Stephen Walt, Harvard Kennedy School Prof. Nazli Choucri, MIT Prof. Thomas Patterson,...
Governor Michael Dukakis spoke about peace and security in the South China Sea
In July 2019, VietNamNet journalist Nguyen Thi Lan Anh interviewed Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, about solutions for peace and security in the South China Sea. China’s redeployment of a government-owned survey vessel,...
Roundtable Discussion for a Framework at the Greek Consulate General on World Reconciliation Day
Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chairman of the Boston Global Forum, and Consul General of Greece in Boston, Stratos Efthymion, will co-chair a roundtable discussion to build a framework for peace and security in the 21st century. The Boston Global Forum,...
Professor Christo Wilson comments on the report by Belfer Center on Attacking Artificial Intelligence
In August 2019, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School published the paper “Attacking Artificial Intelligence: AI’s Security Vulnerability and What Policymakers Can Do About It” by Marcus Comiter. Christo Wilson, Associate...
Separating AI From The Nonsense
Over sixty years ago, A Dartmouth professor named John McCarthy coined a term that would become an enormously successful, and problematic, marketing slogan: artificial intelligence. The term AI is now ubiquitous in the technology industry. Its use bears little...