Boston, March 25, 2024 This community represents a proactive initiative aimed at addressing the proliferation of dangerous weapons, particularly drones, and fostering a culture of peace and security. Mission and Objectives: The primary mission of the Drone for Peace...
Small updates: Roundup on the Four Pillars
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
David Bray to speak at the Vietnam CEO Summit 2019
David Bray, one of top 24 Americans under 40 changing the world and also a member of AI World Society Standards and Practice Committee, will visit Vietnam and talk at the Vietnam CEO Summit on August 8, 2019. He will speak about “Why CEOs Should Embrace Exponential...
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI to develop AI technologies on Azure
Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others, with backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and...
A Global Tax System for the Social Contract 2020
Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, MIT, and Jeff Saviano, Chief of Advanced Global Tax Project of EY, together with the Boston Global Forum and experts of the World Bank and the New American, discussed about applied AI, Blockchain, and Big Data to build the Advanced...
Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76
(from left to right: Governor Michael Dukakis, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and Professor Patrick Winston at the AI World Society's first meeting December 12, 2017.) Patrick Winston, a beloved professor and computer scientist at MIT, died on July 19 at...
Professor Joseph Nye, Distinguished Global Educator for Peace and Innovation: Deterrence in Cyberspace
The Boston Global Forum honored Professor Joseph Nye as a Distinguished Global Educator for Peace and Innovation on World Reconciliation Day September 9, 2017, at Loeb House Harvard University. He wrote an article in Project-Syndicate about cybersecurity:...
Alex Sandy Pentland is the keynote speaker at AIWS Conference September 23, 2019
“A Proposed Social Contract 2020, Regarding Rules and International Laws for AI and the Internet “ is a theme of the AI World Society (AIWS) Conference on September 23, 2019 at Harvard University Faculty Club, MA, USA. Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, Director of...